EP1032934A2 - Interface pour multimedia avec reperage de l'interaction utilisateur - Google Patents

Interface pour multimedia avec reperage de l'interaction utilisateur

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EP1032934A2
EP1032934A2 EP98923457A EP98923457A EP1032934A2 EP 1032934 A2 EP1032934 A2 EP 1032934A2 EP 98923457 A EP98923457 A EP 98923457A EP 98923457 A EP98923457 A EP 98923457A EP 1032934 A2 EP1032934 A2 EP 1032934A2
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J. Gary Snyder
Steven Bliss
David W. Steele
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Palantir Software Inc
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Definitions

  • the present invention relates to bringing intelligence to CD audio recording as well as digital videos that are going to be used on CD's.
  • the invention provides an intelligent interface that will be added to a CD.
  • the CD is re-mastered with this interface which adds intelligence to the CD.
  • a multimedia supplement for computer accessible artist-recorded media comprising: program means added to recorded media and accessible by a computer (a) for viewing an introduction video recorded by the artist;
  • the present invention provides an intelligent multimedia add on for CD's or any other prerecorded media.
  • the consumer can access this addition program material via their PC of other computer.
  • the system and process is designed to be very consumer friendly so anyone can access the additional content of the recording.
  • This additional content may typically be comprised of an introductory video, recorded by the artist. This video welcomes the listener and tells the listener what is included on the system. It may inform the user of the installation available of a special link to the artist Web site and the desk top top icon that quickly launches the artist Web site.
  • the listener has the option of playing only what song they would like to hear and when they play the song the words to that song are displayed on their computer screen as they are sung. There are four other options that the listener can pick in selection two, one; play a video related to the song if one is provided, two; play an audio commentary of the song by the artist, three; display information about the song and four; print the words to the selected song.
  • Additional functions are available throught a menu which displays whenever the IQcd symbol is clicked. Added functions include the installation of Wallpaper graphics and a Screen Saver of the artist on their computer. Other selections on the menu list information about the album as well as copyright information on the program.
  • CD e.g. a normal audio-music CD
  • an introduction video which will have been recorded by the recording artist to whatever the artist deems appropriate, but typically the recording artist will (a) give an introduction (b) thanking the individual for buying the artist's CD's, (c) telling something about the CD, (d) mentioning that if the user wants to know the CD give a behind the scenes tour of the different songs on the CD, (e) can go to web site by installing and subsequently using the artist's unique Web viewer.
  • the artist may also say that there is some very interesting things to be seen on the artist's web site that no one else has seen or can see. It will be a tour to see some secret background of things the artist did while making the recording. By installing the artist's Web link the user may be asked to optionally answer a few questions, particularly age, zip code, and whatever questions artist may want to ask. The icon for the artist will appear on the computer screen.
  • Another unique feature of this system is that if the individual has already bought another CD of the artist that has been enhanced in accordance with the instant system technology, this next CD when place in the PC will recognize the prior purchase and the system can jump to a second introduction screen and not to the main introduction screen.
  • the recording artist may come on screen noting this second, third, etc purchase, and thanking the user target for the 2nd CD purchase, hoping that the user enjoyed specified recordings on the prior purchase(s), and hoping that the user enjoyed this recording because the artist has some more exciting songs to sing.
  • the artist may also note that the user has visited the artist's web site as well and have some more unique insights if the user will again visit the artist's web site. If fact the user would be surprised because the artist has mad some other changes that pertain to this recording. Also, user may be told that if they want to hear the music, just click on the music button.
  • the users will each have an option of playing all of them or "play”, "pause", "volume control” and "random play”.
  • “play” or a "particular song” the words to the song being sung also appear on the screen. As the song is being sung, the words are highlighted in synchronization with the words being sung.
  • the user wants to stop or pause they hit the "pause” button.
  • the user wants to move to a particular spot in the song they can move to the scroll bar and scroll to a desired place in the song. Movement of the scroll bar will highlight the words to the music.
  • Another way of moving to a particular place in a song is to click on a word in the song, and it begins to play on that move.
  • CD's played but only the songs that are played with the present system thereon because the intelligence is synchronized to a particular CD going to a specific web site to tally the totals for the particular artist so that the artist has a ten song CD and individuals tend to play 5 of the songs on a regular basis, the system can report to the artist the relative frequency of playing each song, and thereby give an idea of the more popular songs. Also the artist is given an indication of how many individuals are plugged into this technology, because the system will be getting feedback from anyone who goes on line, to identify the individuals who watch the CD's and is indeed playing the artist's songs.
  • WEB SITE ACCESS CONTROL AND TRACKING which permits the users or individuals to use hot buttons which relate to the album and whatever else the artist wants done. For example, users might want to be directly linked to a home page that relates to the album, but there also can be hot keys that show other things such as concert tours, souvenirs, to chat with the artist, or to go to the artist's home page.
  • the user may be asked zip code, gender, and any other questions the artist/customer wants.
  • the user's PC will appear an icon for that artist.
  • the icon is clicked on to launch its driver and thereafter to be connected to the artist's web site.
  • the user will enter a new home page of the artist for this CD album and will see an album holder page, and be given a welcome greeting by the artist. They will see hot buttons which will link them to sites that will pertain to the interests of the user. This may be a recording, where the tour currently is, where the artist is appearing, background, hints of future information, the site of production of the CD, who is responsible for it, what other artists participated, and some other background.
  • Some links may have controlled access in accordance with aspects of the present invention.
  • Some of the pages can be encrypted as described hereinbelow and require use of encryption from the instant system to see the sites so a casual viewer (one who does not enter the site through the instant system) would not be able to see this proprietary information.
  • the user may be communicating with the web site and exchanging information about why they are visiting on the web site, what intrigues them about the site, and thus provide a profile of the individuals as they visit the site.
  • Another area of the profile may be what music has this viewer listened to, poll the data to determine what songs were played on the CD. This data may become a vital link to some awards by determining how often songs are played. Also it can help identify what songs are liked or are popular.
  • the system can tell how many times the songs are played, are they played in entirety, and are they played in sequential order. Of course the system can capture other data of where, what and how long the user visited on the web site.
  • the interface takes users to the site which in turn allows link to more than one web site so that if the artist was working on a charity and using a web site, or working with another artist who has a site, the user can click on a moving marquee in the upper left hand comer of the screen to be taken directly to these sites, and get information on the charity or other artist.
  • Retailers are beginning to sell on a seasonal basis, a music CD with selected tracks having certain songs they believe are appropriate for a clientele.
  • the user can view these CD's by song, view the words, and be linked to the retailer's web site.
  • a retailer uses a CD to have a user linked to the retailer's web site, and there do catalog shopping or keep abreast of the latest technology. What is important for the retailer is that now on the user's desk top is the icon for that particular store, and the user can be instantly launched to that site.
  • the retailer may use other aspects of the invention to link to some other things they want, e.g. to some recording artist's sites where there may be cross- promotions.
  • Promotional CD's are sent to radio stations throughout the country with multiple artists.
  • the CD can give a brief introduction of each artist, and/or have artist make its own introduction, and if the user wants to know more, click on the appropriate buttons that are provided. This gives the radio stations more human interest information on the artists, by seeing them in action and listening to them speak. Also they can determine where the artist is while on tour or if in town.
  • Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of a specific embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figs. 2 to 4 show typical screen views.
  • Fig. 5 shows thevarious graphical elements used to render figs 2 to 4.
  • Fig. 6 shows a typical initialization file used to initially configure the invention.
  • Fig. 7a is a CD PROFILE DATA FILE "PROFILE.TXT" wherein a site page sends this data via the internet to a server for collating and processing.
  • the server uses this information for various purposes, one of which is to produce a report of the types of CDs out there (i.e. original vs. copy).
  • the server can make an assumption as to whether the CD is a copy or not. For example, if the track layout is even slightly different than that of a known original, then it is probably a copy.
  • Fig. 7b is a TRACK PLAYING TIMES DATA FILE "STATS.TXT" wherein the site page sends this data via the internet to a server for collating and processing.
  • the server uses this information to produce a report of which CD tracks are played more than others, and whether the "WORDS DISPLAY" feature was used.
  • Figs. 8 to 18(a & b) are flow diagrams of the major parts of the programs
  • Fig. 19 is a schematic representation of the system of the present invention in a network such as the World Wide Web.
  • the present invention relates to directing selected users to World Wide Web (WWW) sites. More particularly, the present invention relates to directing the selected users to WWW sites by Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) coding and Web browser control.
  • HTML Hypertext Markup Language
  • the worldwide network of computers commonly known as the Internet has seen explosive growth in the last several years. This growth has been fueled by the introduction and widespread use of web browsers which provide graphical user interface (GUI) based access to network servers.
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • the network servers support documents formatted as so-called web pages.
  • the World Wide Web (WWW) is that collection of servers on the Internet that use Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
  • HTTP is a known application protocol that provides users access to files.
  • the files can be in different formats such as text, graphics, images, sound, video, etc., which use a standard page description language known as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML provides basic document formatting and provides the programmer with a means to specify links to other servers and files.
  • HTML Hypertext Markup Language
  • TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
  • the current techniques for limiting access to Web pages are (a) programming the Web server to honor requests from a limited range of IP addresses or domain names; and (b) explicitly assigning passwords to individuals or groups, which they need to submit when attempting a retrieval.
  • the current techniques for tracking the browsing behavior of a user are: "cookies” sent by a Web server to the user's browser and resubmitted by that Web browser during the next access to the same site; and a "shadow” or proxy Web server that watches all Web site accesses to a site, passes along retrieval requests and gathers and stores browsing behavior information.
  • the flow diagrams are of a computer program embodiment of the present invention which the typical user of the invention will receive in distributable form on a computer-readable medium with the program encoded thereon, such as on floppy disk or CDROM.
  • This program called the Browser Controller (BC)
  • BC Browser Controller
  • the BC controls the user's own already existent World Wide Web browser software and instructs it to retrieve particular Web pages (the "invitation" to browse). This targeted site address is distributed with the BC (floppy disk or CDROM).
  • the BC before retrieving the targeted Web page(s), may check with a known site on the Internet or a local network to validate itself as being a legitimate or authorized copy of the BC.
  • This validation method may stem from the use of a unique "Serial Number" encoded on the diskette (or CDROM) containing the BC.
  • copy-protection schemes may be used.
  • usage-limiting techniques are currently being used to limit the number of simultaneous users of commercial software on local-area-networks (LANs).
  • LANs local-area-networks
  • an organization will purchase the license to run a limited number of copies of a software product.
  • the master copy of the software is placed on the LAN file server.
  • another copy-restriction program is run which checks how many current users of that software there are, and either allows or rejects the particular user's request to run the software.
  • This technique cannot limit the uses of the software by people not connected to the LAN, such as employees of the organization who wish to use the software at home.
  • Publishers can also place the software onto a medium that is difficult or expensive to copy, such as CDROM until writable CDROM drives become inexpensive. Or, they may make it difficult to copy the documentation manual for the software, for instance, by choosing perfect-binding for their manuals. However, these methods primarily discourage, rather than prevent, copying, or copyprotection may be bypassed altogether. If a Serial Number is used, part of that number can be used to identify the subgroup of users receiving the software. This information will be referred to as the "Batch Code" below. For instance, a
  • This information can be used demographically along with the browsing records detailed below.
  • the address (URL) of the initial Web page is not explicitly shown to the user, and those features of the user's browser that normally allow the display of the target Web page address are disabled. This leaves the user in ignorance of where the Web site is, that he is currently looking at. This means that it is difficult to send someone else, who is not "invited", the URL of the Web page, because that URL is unknown to the user.
  • This Web page encryption invisible to retrievers of the Web page without BC, can be used by BC to deliver auxiliary information to the BC user, such as "hot-buttons" to be displayed on the browser window to take the user to other Web sites.
  • auxiliary information such as "hot-buttons" to be displayed on the browser window to take the user to other Web sites.
  • Other uses of the encrypted Web page information include: using the Serial Number (Batch Code) to decide what Web Page information to show any particular user; to provide last-minute instructions to the BC to control Web page access.
  • a program can be encrypted on the Web Page to be executed by the BC.
  • the BC monitors the movements of the user, and can report such details of the user's browsing behavior as: length of time viewing any page; sequence of pages viewed; time of day for any action such as start of the browsing session, etc. These records may be stored by the BC on the user's hard drive for later statistical analysis.
  • the BC may explicitly ask the user for personal or demographic information, such as gender, age, locality, etc. and also store this information.
  • the BC can upload the browsing behavior reports from previous browsing sessions as well as the demographics information.
  • the browser controller is a program distributed to the user in the form of computer readable code on floppy disk, CDROM or other distributable medium (including electronic transfer).
  • the primary purpose of the BC in accordance with the present invention is to control the user's own World Wide Web browser software that is installed on the user's computer. Once Installed on the user's computer, the BC will access the particular sites that It was designed to retrieve, and perform a number of other browsing and access control functions including:
  • the BC includes Browser.pas, Main. pas and HTTP. pas program modules. Browser.pas. See Code Listings in the following Appendix I
  • the Browser.pas module contains functions to find and capture a browser.
  • the Code Listings in the following Appendix I currently support Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Main. pas. See Code Listings in the following Appendix II
  • the Main.pas module contains the main BC window.
  • the form handles all the toolbar functionality and tracks the movements of the user to be reported to the server.
  • HTTP.pas. See Code Listings in the following Appendix III
  • the HTTP.pas module contains functions to talk to the HTTP server where the CGI scripts that record feedback reside. Feedback can be added to the object and will be cached until it is sent off to the server.
  • Installation Information is computer-readable encoded data on the same distribution medium as the BC and will be used by the BC. It contains at least the following types of information:
  • a Serial Number or Batch Code identifying the distribution medium copy as an "authorized” copy.
  • This information can be used to prevent unauthorized copying of the program, by making unauthorized copies unusable.
  • This information can also be used to further identify the user of the software (Batch Code indicating what group of people was targeted for the distribution of the disks that the user received).
  • BIS Browsing Information Store
  • Encryption programs are used to encrypt Web pages and othr information such as authorization codes so that they can only be meaningful to the BC which must decrypt the first. Typical Usage
  • the user receives a floppy disk or a music CD as discussed hereinabove containing the Browser Controller (BC) and the Installation Information (II), and uses a standard or customized program to install the software on his computer.
  • BC Browser Controller
  • II Installation Information
  • demographic information is assembled by asking the user personal and/or business questions (such as gender, age, location, business field, manufacturing, service, sales, marketing number of employees), and the answers are stored in the user's computer for later transmittal to the Browsing Information Store (BIS).
  • BIOS Browsing Information Store
  • the user's computer system is searched to locate a WWW browser that the BC is capable of controlling.
  • the BC is designed to control most popular WWW browsers. If no such browser is found, and the installation package does not contain one for the user, then the installation process terminates, indicating to the user that the BC will not run for lack of necessary programs.
  • Fig. 17 shows a flow diagram of a program for the installation of the Browser Controller program. Installation of the BC occurs as needed through out the program. For example, see Main.pas in Appendix I, lines 178; 269-271 ; 276-356; 413-471 ; 515-523; and 592-601.
  • a search of the hard drive of the user's computer is made for a suitable controllable browser 10. If a suitable browser is not found on the hard drive, and if the distributed medium is provided with a browser, the browser program from the distributed medium is installed on the user's hard drive 10. Atematively the BC could incorporate all the functionality of a browser by combining it with commercially available software building blocks. Also a browser such as Netscape Navagator can be included on the distributed disk.
  • the program asks the user for user's target drive, and the BC files and Installation Information are decompressed and unpacked 11 from the installation disk and placed onto the target drive 13,14.
  • the user is asked demographic questions 15, and the answers are stored in a Demographic file on the target drive.
  • the installation program is ended and the Browser Controller program on the target drive (typically the C-drive) is executed.
  • Figs. 18a and 18b provide flow diagrams of the Browser Controller (BC) program.
  • the code listings for the Browser Controller program are in the following Appendixes I, II and III. These code listings are for Windows application which is typically driven by external events such as actuation of buttons.
  • Installation is typically driven by external events such as actuation of buttons.
  • the program determines whether a suitable WWW browser program is available 31. Availability of a suitable browser is implemented by Brower.pas in Appendix II. If a browser program is not available on the target drive, the program is ended.
  • the Current URL and time of retrieval are stored 46.
  • the control of the Browser used for the retrieving and displaying WWW page is implemented by Browser.pas of Appendix II.
  • Main.pas initiates Browser at least inpart at lines 853-882 and line 1021. This procedure and Browser.pas force the user's browser to request the specified URL.
  • Demographic information from the user may direct the BC to command the Browser to retrieve alternate web pages and/or show different "hot buttons", or alter the user interface in other ways.
  • This "hot button” information can also be included on the disk in the II area. After all of this is done, a Web page is displayed to the user.
  • the user after viewing the primary (first) Web page, can in the usual fashion, click on the hypertext links in the page to retrieve other pages.
  • the BC While the user is viewing these Web pages, the BC is watching the user's behavior and taking note of which Web page is being displayed and for how long, and the sequence of Web pages that the user chooses to look at.
  • the BC will report the user's browsing records electronically to a central computer (BIS). Browsing reports and user demographics are sent to the central computer 49 when a predetermined amount of time has passed or a predetermined number of places have been visited 24, or when the Browser is shut down 48.
  • BIOS central computer
  • the above described embodiment directs the user to a single Web site.
  • the user is directed to a selection of a plurality of sites.
  • the BC takes the user to a screen with a plurality of buttons, each button representing a different on of the Web sites.
  • the buttons may be on a drop down menu or a scrolling marquee.
  • Fig. 19 there is shown an embodiment of the system of the present invention for bringing selected WWW users to view particular Web pages, showing these Web pages only to selected users, and tracking and reporting voluntarily provided demographic information and the users' browsing behavior amongst the chosen Web pages.
  • the system comprises a Browser-Controller program encoded on computer readable media 80 that is distributed to the selected users.
  • typical forms of the media are floppy disks, CDROMs, CD- Audio, DVD and Solid-state media (e.g., Smart Cards).
  • Each one of the users installs a respective one of the computer readable media 80 on a user computer 82.
  • the user computer 82 executes the Browser-Controller program to control the user's own already existent Worid Wide Web browser software 84 and instructs it to retrieve particular Web pages. If there is no existing browser software, a suitable browser program optionally can be distributed to the user along with the Browser-Controller and the Tracker Client programs on one of the media 80.
  • a central computer 88 Is located In the network and optionally has Installed thereon a Tracker Server program 91 including a database for storing Current Tokens received from the Browser- Controller programs.
  • Each Browser-Controller program is validated by the Tracker Server program 91 on the central computer 88 before being permitted to retrieve the targeted Web page(s) on a Primary Web site 90.
  • the retrieved Web pages or files optionally will need to be decrypted either by the
  • the Statistical Database 93 may alternatively be on a separate web site that is accessible by the owner of the Primary Web site 90.
  • the data collection program 92 with the statistical database 93 collectively are the BIS.
  • a browser on a user's computer is used to direct the user to a web site by the following steps.
  • a first function is that a registry is searched to determine whether a browser is on the user's computer system, and to identify the browser.
  • the registry is a database maintained by the system for tracking various information including file extensions and the applications the file extensions are associated with.
  • This function searches the registry to find the executable file associated with the .htm extension.
  • This executable is assumed to be a browser which can be controlled by the Browser Controller (BC) program.
  • BC Browser Controller
  • the browser executable is retrieved from the registry and executed. (See browser.pas: lines 612-641)
  • Each browser typically has the name of the browser in its title bar, e.g. Netscape normally says “Netscape -" and then the URL that you are currently addressing.
  • Internet E ⁇ xplorer also usually operates the same way so that these programs can be searched for and located. However, if a window of either browser is not located within a reasonable period of time (e.g., 30 seconds), then the search is terminated and the user is given an error message. (See browser.pas, lines 646-663 and lines 124-163).
  • the system handle for that window is used to make the window a child of one of the windows contained in the BC application.
  • a "handle" is a unique 16-bit numeric identifier. Each window that is currently opened in the system has a unique handle. Thereafter, the browser window will only be visible inside the BC application. (See browser.pas: line 674).
  • a search through the browser is made to determine which child window inside the browser is the largest.
  • the largest child window should be the browser output window. (See browser.pas: lines 610-737).
  • the position of the largest window and are used to determine what the extra space on all sides of the browser window should be.
  • the menus, the tool bars and the status bar are pushed outwardly so that they are not displayed.
  • the space thereabout is calculated, and the entire BC application is resized so that only the browser window is displayed within the BC window. This resizing is achievable because the top and left coordinates of a window can be set to negative coordinates and thereby move the peripheral portions off the screen, or in this case the peripheral portions will go out of the window that is set as the window's parent. (See main.pas, lines 1035-1109).
  • the browser is captured, its handle is known, and the browser is contained within the BC window.
  • the actual window which contains the browser is not yet visible.
  • the BC program itself is visible, so the output window is blank. If you are already connected to the Internet then the browser will begin to operate.
  • the user can connect to the Internet again and press one of the buttons on the browser, e.g., the home button to take the user to the home page, to again begin the program.
  • one of the buttons on the browser e.g., the home button to take the user to the home page, to again begin the program.
  • a timer is activated which goes on periodically to look into all the child windows to determine if the URL that was initially passed to Netscape or Explorer has appeared within that box.
  • the target box is identified by the fact that the URL that was specified on the command line when the program was run now appears in that target box.
  • Internet Explorer if it fails to find the host or if it is a bad host or if the server is down, Internet Explorer will put in BLANK.HTM which is stored on the hard drive. Once the URL field has been found, the browser is made visible within the BC application. (See main.pas: lines 1152-1164)
  • BC program Whenever the user follows a link to a different page, the BC program will know it because BC checks that box every 1/4 of a second to see if it is changed. If that box does change, then BC sends information to the server concerning that change. (See main.pas: lines 1209-1295)
  • BC has an algorithm which will walk through all the menus, and can thereby determine each item menu caption (the title of each menu item).
  • the BC does not search the menu as soon as Internet Explorer is found because Internet E ⁇ xplorer does not build its menus until one is connected to a web page - i.e. must be connected to an Internet host before it builds its menus - and thus permit a walk through and read.
  • the BC program can control the captured browser through the browser's, (2) the BC program can determine what the user is doing through the edit box, (3) and the browser window is always dynamically resized to fit inside the BC application.
  • the BC tool bar is effectively substituted for that of the browser. Since none of the browser's buttons are visible, direct control of the browser is not possible. Thus, at this point, the BC program controls all functionality.
  • BarRect Bounds(Bar.spriteBack.Left+1 , Bar.spriteBack.Top,
  • Bar.iSlidePosition ConvertSweepToSlide(Bar, Bar.iSweepPosition)
  • Bar.iSlidePosition ConvertSweepToSlide(Bar,Bar.iSweepPosition)
  • Bar.iSweepTravel Bar.iSweepWidth-iSlideButtonSize
  • Width imglmage.Width
  • Height : Height
  • BitmapOverlay (Bitmap: TBitmap; var Sprite, SpriteOffset: TSprite);
  • iAudioTrackStart iAudioTrackLength: array [1..MAX TRACKS] of longint;
  • iStatsTrackStart iStatsTrackLength: array [1..MAX TRACKS] of longint;
  • iPausedTime (Position div 100) - iAudioTrackStart[iLastTrackNo];

Abstract

Supplément multimédia pour supports enregistrés par des artistes et accessibles par ordinateur, qui comporte un programme ajouté au support enregistré et accessible à l'aide d'un ordinateur (a) pour visionner une vidéo de présentation enregistrée par l'artiste, (b) pour établir une liaison spéciale avec le site web de l'artiste, à l'aide d'une icône qui lance rapidement le site web de l'artiste et (c) pour reproduire l'interprétation enregistrée par l'artiste. Lors de la reproduction de cette interprétation, le spectateur peut (i) afficher le titre de chaque morceau enregistré (par ex. titre de chanson, actes et scènes d'une pièce, d'une comédie musicale, d'un spectacle de danse, etc.), (ii) regarder et/ou écouter éventuellement et sélectivement l'une quelconque ou l'ensemble des interprétations enregistrées, et (iii) afficher des paroles parlées ou chantées en synchronisme avec le spectacle, (iv) regarder éventuellement une vidéo de la chanson interprétée s'il en existe une, (v) écouter éventuellement un commentaire sonore sur l'interprétation et (vi) afficher éventuellement des informations sur l'interprétation.
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