Digital downloading jukebox system with user-tailored music management, communications, and other tools

摘要

A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user, including services for creating playlists, communicating with others, accessing other features, etc. is provided. In some exemplary embodiments, after a user is recognized, the jukebox system allows users to access a special front-end via an Internet-enabled device or on an actual jukebox. Then, the user may, for example, create playlists, share songs with friends, send messages to friends, and access other value-added content. Such a system preferably learns about networks of friends, and enables managers to send similar messages to regular customers and/or others known to the system. In some exemplary embodiments, changes via a first user interface on a first device are reflected on second user interface on other properly-configured devices.

主权项

1. A method for playing music from a catalog of playable songs in an out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, the method comprising:
enabling a plurality of registered users to execute respective login operations via respective mobile devices to indicate that the respective users are present at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment; preventing people who are not registered users from executing respective login operations; in response to logged-in registered users selecting songs, collecting credits and adding the selected songs to a queue of songs to be played back at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, at least a portion of the queue being displayable for the registered users; and receiving, from at least some logged-in registered users via their respective mobile devices, votes on the songs in the displayable portion of the queue; causing songs from the queue to be played at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, wherein the portion of the queue and corresponding tallied votes for songs in the portion of the queue, as well as an indication of a song currently playing at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, are viewable via the mobile devices that the logged-in registered users used to execute their respective login operations, wherein the portion of the queue, the corresponding tallied votes, and the indication of the song currently playing are displayable on a standalone display; and wherein the catalog of playable songs in the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment is restrictable by a proprietor of the establishment through selection of at least one predefined list of playable music selected from a plurality of such predefined lists, the predefined lists of playable music being not coextensive with separately selectable genre lists, the at least one predefined list of playable music being selectable by the proprietor of the establishment via a user interface not accessible to the logged-in registered users.