Special to Android® Developers

Bring Natural Overlapped Music-Flow to Tablet and Smartphone Applications

Gain a distinctive competitive advantage

Eliminate Annoying Silence Gaps and Sloppy Cross Fades

Smartphone music players, In-Car Audio systems, and Web-streams can greatly benefit from licensed incorporation of patented (US 9,286,942) Codentity® Transition Technology (CTT).  DJ, home entertainment, and professional MUSIC PRESENTATION applications running on Android® TABLET devices could also dramatically improve the presentation of their sequenced music events with Codentity® Transition Technology.

With CTT controlling automatic mixing mode, music-flow can be transformed from disruptive SILENCE GAP between song events to uniformly smooth and naturally-overlapped OR suitably-adjoined song-to-song transitions.  Codentity supports CTT integration for Android® devices—in software and for integrated circuits.

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The sequential transition outcomes of Codentity music-flow control technology are consistently the most desirable

For developers and entities with a definitive license agreement, Codentity can also offer process assistance consultation, and access to the Developer Assets Package.  Acquisition of these tools and services will provide source code, programing object maps. events and properties descriptions, and more.  This will allow faster code modeling, integration, and testing on your platform.

With the implementation of patented Codentity® Transition Technology, the music-flow experience on Android®  devices and platforms will be dramatically improved.  Android® products can claim the technical high ground, while competitors will still be distributing digital music solutions with annoying silence gaps and sloppy cross fades.  Advantage Android®.

Android® Is Not Without Formidable Competition

The digital MUSIC PRESENTATION sector is broad and highly competitive.  A company that can demonstrate technical innovation by improving the listener experience can claim a distinctive advantage.  At a time when major players like Google®, Apple®, Microsoft®, Amazon®, Pandora®, and Spotify® are growing (or fighting to maintain) their slice of the digital music presentation market, Android® developers have an immediate way to implement a technical enhancement that will permit them to build a better music-flow listener experience into their applications: LICENSING Codentity® Transition Technology.

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Gapless Playback Outcomes (Cross Fade Mixing) On Windows® or Apple® iOS Devices

Currently, in AUTOMATIC (i.e., cross fade) music mixing mode, popular applications like Windows® Media Player, or the Apple® media player, deliver various degrees of fidelity—with regard to determination and execution of digital song boundaries.  Depending on the vendor, and particular song pairs, the song-to-song transitions in these applications are often presented with:

  • Inaccurately defined song content boundaries
  • Premature fade OUTS and unwanted fade INS
  • Fade OUTS to near zero audio levels of a first song, immediately followed by a jarring full level playback of the next song
  • A music-flow experience that cannot present music content the way the artist intended, or the listener expects

While both widely-distributed media player applications have their attractive music presentation capabilities, only patented Codentity® Transition Technology (CTT), if integrated into the software framework of these popular players, could effectively eliminate the negative effects of their SILENCE GAPS and / or poorly executed CROSS FADES.  However, Android® developers and hardware builders can gain a distinctive technical advantage for their platforms by incorporating CTT into their software or hardware layers.

Imagine an Android®-based tablet or smartphone with music applications that AUTOMATICALLY provide a dramatically improved listener experience!  Google/Android handset teams, learn more here.

What is Codentity® Transition Technology?  See Press Release.  Want proof?  See demonstration VIDEOS.  Discover how CTT is better—compare the patented Codentity methods with 'gapless playback' patents granted to other vendors.

Gapless Playback Outcomes (Cross Fade Mixing) On Streaming Platforms

Music applications designed for Web-music players and their desktop-counterpart streaming apps generally suffer from one or two unpleasant song-to-song mixing effects:  undesirable SILENCE GAPS or sloppy CROSS FADES.

Spotify® claims 20 million paid users, and as such, is the current world-leader in active streaming music users.  And Spotify®, while excelling in many areas of streamed-music presentation, has not yet deployed an effective system to counter the negative effects of SILENCE GAPS and poorly executed CROSS FADES.

Pandora Media®, the leading music streamer in the United States and Canada, also offers many commendable attributes.  However, most Pandora® music transitions allow a 5 to 15 second SILENCE GAP between consecutive songs and sequential audio events.

Patented Codentity® Transition Technology (CTT), if adapted for the back-end technology of the leading music streamers,  could effectively eliminate the negative effects of SILENCE GAPS and poorly executed CROSS FADES; effects such as erratic and unexpected audio levels, content portion deletions, and poorly defined song boundaries.

Claiming Android® Leadership In The Listener Experience Metric

If a much-improved listener experience were offered for Android® devices and platforms, a distinctive feature advantage could be claimed by the associated marketing teams.  An evolutionary advantage to be sure, but nevertheless an advantage that could not be readily duplicated by competitors.

Get technical and business process information on the Codentity® Transition Technology patent licensing page.  Also, learn which major companies have invested in perfecting their brand of Gapless Playback Technology (GPT).  Get immediate answers to your FAQ.

FYI--The mixing magic in Codentity's True Blend® Media Player System is created by incorporation of Codentity Transition Technology.  Developers who wish to bring a better listening experience to their end users may license CTT.  See the Codentity Services page for more information.

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Welcome Android® Developers

  • The Challenge

    Typically, Windows® tablets, and PC media players (from Microsoft® or Apple®), streaming Web-Music services, and smartphone devices,  present sequenced song selections in one of two less than optimized states:  with disruptive SILENCE GAPS between songs, or with simulated CROSS FADE blending that produces undesirable results.

    For example, song-to-song audio presentations, for all known consumer sector devices, present streamed or sequentially played songs as isolated audio events, one song at a time with a 5 to 8 second SILENCE GAP between each song.

    In-Car Audio

    Even worse, some leading vendors offer automatic music transitions implemented with so-called ‘cross fade’ effects.  This technique typically presents Song A with a premature FADE OUT, followed by Song B with an undesirable FADE IN.

    Web-Streamers

    Watch a short video comparing Codentity® Transition Technology with Microsoft® and Apple® CROSS FADE outcomes.

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    Is it possible to innovate, to jump ahead of the pack?  Yes.  Read the Solution.

  • The Solution

    My company, Codentity® LLC, has patented a system and method for AUTOMATICALLY eliminating the serial SILENCE GAP, and replacing it with smooth, natural, overlapped transitions—AUTOMATICALLY, and in real-time without user actions or file preparations.  Or, for songs that end abruptly, Codentity Transition Technology tightly adjoins the start of Song B with the end of Song A—just like a real DJ would.

    Patented Codentity Transition Technology (CTT) produces a more appealing listener experience because it is less disruptive, and it presents the music the way both terrestrial and satellite radio do—most importantly, the way the recording artist intended and the way the user expects to hear their favorite music.

  • The Android® Benefit

    If a much-improved listener experience were offered for Android® devices and music applications, a distinctive feature advantage could be claimed by the various marketing teams.  An evolutionary advantage to be sure, but nevertheless an advantage that could not be readily duplicated by competitors.

     

    And since even evolutionary enhancements can drive interest, this appealing music-flow feature might bring more users over to the Android® platform—or convince developers to invest in Android® CLOUD solutions.

  • Licensing

    Codentity® Transition Technology (CTT) is a system and method of automatically refining sequential song-to-song transitions on digital playback devices.  CTT eliminates the technical problems heard in almost all other automatic music mixing solutions.  For a fee, patented (U.S. 9,286,942) Codentity Transition Technology can be licensed and adapted to create a more natural music-flow experience across a diverse set of digital presentation platforms including:

     

    • Mobile devices (such as smartphones, tablets and in-car audio players)
    • Streamed Web-music services (like Spotify®, Pandora®, and many others)
    • On-Demand Voice-Command streams (such as interactive services from Amazon®)
    • Enterprise music servers (whether satellite or Intranet originated)
    • Mobile DJ software and PC media players (replacing unsatisfactory ‘cross fade’ methods)

     

    License agreements are offered at three levels:

    • Platform License  (Articulated as single platform or multi-platform)
    • Developer Assets Package  (Sample source code, programming object maps, step-by-step process execution templates, etc.)
    • Developer Consultation Services  (Process assistance adapting technology to proprietary music-flow networks)

     

    Go to Codentity Licensing page.  Envision the potential scope of the market for gapless playback precision.

A condensed technical explanation of Codentity Transition Technology is offered below.  I invite interested parties who wish to learn more to contact me directly at 630-487-0934 -- or -- thp8929@gmail.com.

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