MusicPrint® (MPT) is a dynamic new search and store method that begins by creating a personal music profile unique to each user. Then, in collaboration with the user, MusicPrint helps construct the ultimate music search—which can accurately predict an individual's hit-music preferences. MusicPrint can be of great aid to the music collector, and it can also benefit DJs who want to create the perfect music preference list for their dance party customers.
When deployed, for example in a software product like the Media Player Mixer Express™ (MPMe), this patent pending capability can permit the working DJ to quickly define music play lists that an audience member will want to hear. This is possible because MusicPrint, when integrated with a digital DJ search system, can perform music searches using customized data queries based (in part) on calculations made from a demographic baseline—which can easily be established for a typical audience member.
*The next beta release of the MPMe may include a Codentity BTP user community preview of MusicPrint technology. Consult the README file documentation provided with the MPMe beta 2 distribution media, when available.
A better understanding of MusicPrint can be learned by reading this short summary which has been compiled, in part, using excerpts from the published patent specification.
[MusicPrint® is] ...
A method for creating and storing an individual’s Primary Exposure Window (PEW), wherein each user’s hit-music preference list is based, in part, on the theoretical time frame associated with the period in the user's life when he is most likely to hear, absorb, and develop an emotional connection with popular music.
(Example: A music fan born in 1960 may be highly likely to have formed his or her hit-music preferences in a PRIMARY exposure window ranging, approximately, from 1974 to 1994—from the age of 14 through 34. When a user is enrolled in MusicPrint, the search engine can target results for this person by giving a stronger preference to music released between 1974 and 1994.)
A method which includes an enrollment process that creates a unique MPT Identity and demographic profile for each user collecting biographical information and responses to questions designed to ascertain the scope of an individual's music preferences; further extrapolating data from the user's psycho-demographic profile (“baseline") which allows MPT logic to make informed assumptions about an individual's cultural, generational and emotional sensitivity characteristics (which can be used to shape preference lists based on a song's sound, style, content and regional availability).
A method of providing multiple query resource threads (to include or exclude catalog data, category attribute matching, user declared preferences, user-specific demographic profile calculations, and catalog editor recommendations), which can be applied singly or in layered groups to produce a unique user search parameter; with query resource threads further defined in this manner:
Catalog Data — is information compiled from published or licensed documentation providing a historical overview of hit music including data such as chart rankings, date of release, song tempo, music genre, energy level, etc.
Category Attribute Matching — invokes filter options that suggest songs by allowing a user to take advantage of the natural connection between songs—same artist, same music genre, same tempo, same dance rating, gender of lead vocal artist, etc.
User Declared Preferences — give the user the option to “vote” for inclusion or exclusion of a particular song or genre based on the user’s decision.
Catalog Editor Recommendations — are queries that invoke filters based on expert opinions like the grouping of songs into pre-defined “music sets” (or collections). Set examples might include names like: Beach Party Fun, Jukebox 60s, Male Rock Classics, etc. Catalog Editor Recommendations might also include lists of collateral suggestions based on perceived music styles (calypso beat, country and western swing, twist, tango, two-step, waltz, etc.), or obvious thematic and song message content—themes like financial hardship, medical conditions, infidelity, crimes sprees, etc.
With MusicPrint technology, the immediate goal is to provide users with a superior method of identifying the specific songs that are uniquely included in one’s personal soundtrack; and then, storing, accessing and sharing that personal soundtrack on demand—which is to say, MusicPrint® represents a significant improvement over existing music search technologies.
NOTICE: The methods and systems disclosed in this discussion of MusicPrint® search technology are the subject of a patent application on file with the United States Patent and Trademark (USPTO) office in Washington, DC. MusicPrint is a registered trademark licensed to Codentity LLC. Use of Codentity beta software may require enrollment in the Codentity Beta Tester Program (BTP), which can be subject to restrictions. This site optimized for 1024 x 768 on Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 6 or better.
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