Internet radio and broadcast method

摘要

Data streams are generally selected according to user preferences and transmitted to the user in general alignment with expressed preferences of the user. Such data streams may be music, including music videos. Users may indicate their general or specific preferences with regards to song, artists, or albums. Any other aspects or factors that might affect the user's preferences can be taken into account. A playlist is created that combines all of these factors. The playlist then serves as the basis for feeding the data streams to the user. Each user is able to express his or her own preferences and receive music corresponding to those preferences on an on-going basis.

主权项

1. A method of providing an Internet radio service, comprising:
receiving requests, from a plurality of individual users serving as DJs for a community of users, to create personalized Internet radio stations shared with the community of users, each individual request including at least one musical preference to select songs of a personalized Internet radio station; generating, for each individual of the plurality of individual users serving as DJs, a personalized Internet radio station to form a plurality of personalized Internet radio stations, wherein each personalized Internet radio station, when accessed, automatically generates a sequence of songs based on the at least one musical preference provided by the individual user serving as the DJ for the personalized Internet radio station; sharing each respective personalized Internet radio station of the plurality of personalized Internet radio stations with a community of users by hosting, via at least one server computer, the plurality of shared personalized Internet radio stations, wherein each individual shared personalized Internet radio station is accessible by members of the community of users; and in response to a request from a member of the community selecting one of the plurality of shared personalized Internet radio stations, transmitting a data stream providing access to songs of the selected personalized Internet radio station to the member of the community.