Interleaving of information into compressed digital audio streams
View Patent ↗Disclosed is a digital audio device that includes a communications port to communicatively connect the device to a server. The device also includes a unique identifier to identify the device. The device also includes a controller to allow transfer of digital audio files from the server. The digital audio files contain interleaved data selected by the server based on the unique identifier. The device also includes a decoder to decode the interleaved data and a data store to store at least one of the digital audio files and the interleaved data.
1. A digital audio device, comprising:
a communications port to communicatively connect the digital audio device to a server, the server interleaving data into one or more digital audio files, the data based on a unique identifier of the digital audio device;
a controller to allow transfer of the one or more interleaved digital audio files from the server;
a decoder to receive the one or more interleaved digital audio files that were created at the server and to decode the one or more interleaved digital audio files by extracting the interleaved data, the decoder providing separate access to the one or more digital audio files and to the interleaved data; and
a data store to store at least one of the one or more digital audio files and the interleaved data.
2. The digital audio device of claim 1 , wherein the data store stores the unique identifier.
3. The digital audio device of claim 1 , further comprising a filter to remove one of an unwanted portion and an unusable portion from the interleaved data.
4. The digital audio device of claim 1 , wherein the interleaved data includes audio data.
5. The digital audio device of claim 1 , further comprising a display.
6. The digital audio device of claim 5 , wherein the decoder is adapted to convert the interleaved data to be displayed based on a type of the display.
7. The digital audio device of claim 6 , wherein the type of the display includes a spectrum analyzer display device and wherein the interleaved data includes display data that represents an audio signal in a meter format.
8. A system to provide information associated with digital audio files, the system comprising:
a music content server adapted to communicate with a client device to receive a file identifier to identify a digital audio file to be downloaded to the client device and to receive a unique identifier associated with the client device; and
wherein the music content server is adapted to interleave non-audio information with the digital audio file to create a digital data stream and to transmit the digital data stream to the client device, the non-audio information including device-specific information selected based on the unique identifier, wherein the digital data stream created by the music content server is received and decoded by a decoder located at the client device to allow separate access to the non-audio information and the digital audio file.
9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the non-audio information includes advertising data.
10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the non-audio information includes data related to recommended equalization settings related to the digital audio file.
11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the music content server further identifies the non-audio information upon receipt of the file identifier.
12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the music content server is adapted to selectively alter the non-audio information based on a type of the client device.
13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the music content server is adapted to selectively remove display data from the non-audio information based on the type of the client device.
14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the digital audio file is one of a .WMA file, a .WAV file, and an MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (MP3) file.
15. The system of claim 8 , wherein:
the music content server is adapted to determine, based on the device identifier, that a portion of the non-audio information will not be used by the client device; and
the music content server is adapted to not interleave the portion of the non-audio information with the digital audio file.
16. The system of claim 8 , wherein the music content server is adapted to not interleave the non-audio information with the digital audio file when data indicating that the non-audio information is unwanted is received from the client device.
17. The system of claim 8 , wherein the client device comprises at least one of a personal computer, a console digital audio player, and a portable digital audio player.
18. The system of claim 8 , wherein the music content server is one of a personal computing device and a laptop computing device.
19. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
transmit a file identifier to a server to identify a digital audio file to be downloaded;
transmit a device identifier to the server, the server interleaving data into the digital audio file to create an interleaved digital audio file, the data including device-specific information based on the device identifier;
receive the interleaved digital audio file at a client device;
decode, at the client device, the interleaved digital audio file that was created at the server to provide non-audio information associated with the digital audio file to a user; and
store at least one of the digital audio file and the interleaved data.
20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to filter the interleaved data.