Friday, 7 November 2008 Updated Audioport Concept

New Concept – AudioPorting - Updated Concept


• Just added what technology is going to be used.
• Added some more advantages for the venues involved.
• Improved the terminology.
• Described what the main hub would resemble.
• Not limited the idea to be linked with iTunes
• Added some lastfm.com links

Updated Concept

What about the possibility of a devise installed at participating music venues which could read and store (through acoustic fingerprinting) audio track information (its ID3 metadata) and when requested pass that information on through Bluetooth to a mobile devise.
The devise would not send the complete audio file just the ID3 metadata info. Acoustic censers would be placed where music could be easily identified and feed back to a main hub/ or kiosk (this would resemble a mobile credit top up machine or old school jukebox. Once the mobile Bluetooth user downloaded the track info, the user would be asked or directed to a database website e.g. site similar to iTunes or MySpace. Once logged into their account the user could download the complete audio track plus optional additional information on the selected artist and the particular music venue.

For example
• Selected Artist’s Previous Work
• Where the Artist is next touring/ performing.
• Similar artists*
• If the selected music falls under an electronic music genre, info on what DJ’s might be likely to play this track. This would then lead to info on that list of DJs or radio show.
*lastfm.com is a good example of how a similar artist option.
e.g.
http://www.last.fm/music/Mick+Harris
http://www.last.fm/music/DJ+Vapour
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Teknoist


Information would also be available on the venue where the music data was first downloaded from.
For example
• Future venue Events / Listings
• Background info on the venue.