MUSIC PURCHASING AND PLAYING SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

An online music purchasing system and method is disclosed in which a radio service (106) operates on a user's computer and is configured for receiving and playing digital radio representations of media content in a radio session. A content server (118) is configured for serving the digital radio representations of media content to the radio service (106), and a radio sequence server (122) is configured for serving a sequential list of currently-playing and previously-played media content of the radio session to the radio service (106). An account server (111) is configured for receiving a signal indicative of a user's desire to purchase a file of one of a currently-playing or previously-played media content. A download manager (104) is configured for downloading the file to the user's computer according to the signal indicative of the user's desire to purchase the file.