Cadence and media content phase alignment

    公开(公告)号:US10782929B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-22

    申请号:US16368319

    申请日:2019-03-28

    Applicant: Spotify AB

    Inventor: Tristan Jehan

    Abstract: Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for cadence and media content phase alignment are provided. An example media-playback device includes a content output device that operates to output media content, a cadence-acquiring device, a phase-delay calibration engine, a cadence-based media content selection engine, and a phase-aligned media playback engine. The cadence-acquiring device includes a movement-determining device and a cadence-determination engine configured to determine a cadence based on movement data captured by the movement-determining device. The phase-delay calibration engine configured to determine phase delay values for at least one cadence value. The cadence-based media content selection engine configured to identify a media content item based on the cadence determined by the cadence-acquiring device. The phase-aligned media playback engine configured to align the identified media content item to the repetitive-motion activity and cause the media-output device to output the aligned media content item.

    Lyrics analyzer
    83.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10770044B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-08

    申请号:US16111614

    申请日:2018-08-24

    Applicant: Spotify AB

    Abstract: A lyrics analyzer generates tags and explicitness indicators for a set of tracks. These tags may indicate the genre, mood, occasion, or other features of each track. The lyrics analyzer does so by generating an n-dimensional vector relating to a set of topics extracted from the lyrics and then using those vectors to train a classifier to determine whether each tag applies to each track. The lyrics analyzer may also generate playlists for a user based on a single seed song by comparing the lyrics vector or the lyrics and acoustics vectors of the seed song to other songs to select songs that closely match the seed song. Such a playlist generator may also take into account the tags generated for each track.

    System for managing transitions between media content items

    公开(公告)号:US10599388B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-24

    申请号:US16136789

    申请日:2018-09-20

    Applicant: Spotify AB

    Abstract: A system for playing media content items operates to provide smooth transitions between the media content items to continuously support a user's repetitive motion activity. The system can generate crossfade data containing information for transitions between media content items. The mix-in and mix-out points for the transitions are calculated to eliminate one or more portions of media content items that have lower musical energy than a majority portion of the items, and to maintain substantially consistent and/or stable musical energy (e.g., audio power or sound power) throughout the media content items including transitions therebetween.

    Methods and systems for grouping playlist audio items

    公开(公告)号:US10229716B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-12

    申请号:US15399594

    申请日:2017-01-05

    Applicant: Spotify AB

    Abstract: A method comprises obtaining a playlist that comprises a plurality of audio items, and dividing the playlist into a plurality of coherent groups, wherein each coherent group comprises a respective sequence of audio items of the plurality of audio items with a common attribute. For a respective coherent group of the plurality of coherent groups, the method comprises determining a parameter value of a first audio item of the respective sequence and adjusting a parameter value of a second audio item of the respective sequence based on the determined parameter value of the first audio item, to form a transition between the first and second audio items. The first and second audio items are adjacent in the respective sequence. The transition is provided to a second electronic device for playback.

    PLAYLIST TRAILER
    87.
    发明申请
    PLAYLIST TRAILER 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20190042648A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-07

    申请号:US15667383

    申请日:2017-08-02

    Applicant: Spotify AB

    Inventor: Tristan Jehan

    Abstract: A playlist preview is generated to provide a preview of media content items identified by a media playlist. The playlist preview can be created by selecting all or some of the media content items in the playlist, determining preview portions of the selected media content items, and arranging the preview portions with or without a transition effect. The playlist preview can be easily shared with other users through, for example, social media sites.

    Repetitive-Motion Activity Enhancement Based Upon Media Content Selection

    公开(公告)号:US20180358053A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-13

    申请号:US15960162

    申请日:2018-04-23

    Applicant: Spotify AB

    Abstract: Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for repetitive-motion activity enhancement based upon media content selection are provided. An example media-playback device for enhancement of a repetitive-motion activity includes a media-output device that plays media content items, a plurality of media content selection engines, and a repetitive-activity enhancement mode selection engine. The plurality of media content selection engines includes a cadence-based media content selection engine and an enhancement program engine. The cadence-based media content selection engine is configured to select media content items based on a cadence associated with the repetitive-motion activity. The enhancement program engine is configured to select a media content items according to an enhancement program for the repetitive-motion activity. The repetitive-activity enhancement mode selection engine is configured to select a media content selection engine from the plurality of engines and to cause the media-output device to playback media content items selected by the selected engine.

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