Gracenote Playlist Plus™ gives fans new ways to enjoy music collections on portable and non-network devices. Flash memory-based portable MP3 players, mobile phones, home CD and DVD players, and car stereos that might lack internet connectivity, available CPU resources, or memory space to support music recognition can provide automatic playlists that play back songs to match your mood. For example, plugging in a portable MP3 player to a Playlist Plus-enabled car stereo is an easy way to generate playlists customized for when you drive.
Playlist Plus analyzes text data available in file tags and filenames to link the music to an internal database of music information. For example, if you want to play music that is similar to a song currently playing, select the More Like This™ feature to generate a more focused list of songs from the collection.
More Like This playlists and other Auto-Playlist functionality is invaluable in situations where navigating a large music collection is impractical on devices with small screens and limited controls like car stereos, MP3 players, or cellular phones.
Playlist Plus uses the Gracenote's proprietary metadata types developed by an editorial team of music experts. The information includes Gracenote's genre system that has more than 1600 individual genre categories and associated relational data. The system lets Playlist Plus find subtle relationships between songs normally missed by simpler systems. For example, a "Punk Pop" song may be more similar to a "Ska Revival" song than it might be to one belonging to another "Punk" sub-category, such as "Hardcore Punk."
Works with Gracenote MediaVOCS™ Voice Recognition
Playlist Plus is also designed to seamlessly work with Gracenote MediaVOCS, which provides voice recognition controls for consumer electronic devices such as cars stereos and other devices with limited user interfaces.
Advanced Playlist Functionality
Playlist Plus includes much of the same advanced playlisting functionality found in Gracenote Playlist™ even with its small data and memory requirements.
More Like This Playlists
Gracenote Playlist Plus provides pre-defined functions that allow the music fan to generate one-touch playlists by simply selecting one or more tracks, albums, or artists as seeds. Playlist Plus returns a new mix of songs incorporating the latest additions to the user's collection of music. The resulting playlist may cross genres and eras to create a playlist of similar music based on the user's mood.
Adaptive Playlists
As new files are added to a music collection, Playlist Plus automatically updates its dynamic playlists to include the new songs.
Integration of Personal Listening Preferences
Playlist Plus can create playlists that pay attention to the music fan's own music preferences as indicated by listening activity and personal ratings of tracks, albums, and artists. The more the user interacts with the music library, the smarter Playlist Plus gets.
Pre-set Playlists
Playlist Plus comes pre-loaded with an extensive set of pre-set dynamic playlists such as "70's Soul and Funk" and "Rock On, Dude." Developers can also define and name their own additional customized pre-set dynamic playlists. Users can name and save any defined dynamic playlist so they can easily run it again to generate a new mix or save a result set of tracks as a redefined fixed playlist.
Custom User Assignment
To further personalize the results the user also has the ability to classify songs that match more closely their own preferences.
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