amcluesent;328391 Wrote: > Apple's patent application is for a piece of software that would store > only what is known as a song's 'metadata' - the bare bones of the song > file - on the iPhone. When the owner pressed play on a track, the > device would - via wi-fi or the phone network - command the owner's PC > to stream the full track.
One possible example of prior art ... the old TurtleBeach Audiotron worked something like this. The metadata was called a table-of-contents. On power-up, the Audiotron looked for the file - and if present it read it into memory on the device ... which it then used to drive the menu (e.g. to provide searching for artist/track etc). If there was no TOC then it scanned all of the media files. given the length of the scanning process when working with a large library, I expect most users were generating TOCs, either using the media manager software from TurtleBeach or one of the handful of 3rd-party tools that could generate the same format. The Reciva-based internet radio devices have something similar - the radio can write out a metadata cache file to the LAN. A difference here is that the radio generates the metadata file rather than an external app. Also - don't the Sonos devices replicate meta data to the playback devices to provide faster access? Is it sufficiently novel to have the metadata stored permanently on the playback device? I'd have thought not. -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://www.lastfm.com/user/BondJamesBond ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50994 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
