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End to end Music

Goal: end-to-end music Longhorn demo

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•Acquiring

•Browsing

•Playback

•Sharing

•IHV integration

End to end Music

• The longhorn PC is going to do everything it can to convince users to digitize their music collection.

• Longhorn is going to be smart about applying metadata to music you acquire as well as cleaning up metadata on your existing digitized collection.

• Big bet on rich storage but the experience is optimized for music.• A user should be able to access their music collection from wherever

they are (where there’s a Longhorn PC).

• One unified transport control • One unified volume experience • Integrated with 10’ experience

• TBD

• Home media devices become great PC peripherals with Longhorn

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•Acquiring

End to end Music

1. Adding content to your music library

• Quick copying- easy to copy CD collection

2. Richer and smarter metadata

• Fix broken or missing Metadata • Automatically provide new metadata and update it• Rationalize automatic and manual metadata

• The longhorn PC is going to do everything it can to convince users to digitize their music collection.

• Longhorn is going to be smart about applying metadata to music you acquire as well as cleaning up metadata on your existing digitized collection.

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•Browsing

End to end Music

1. Rich My Music place

• Scoping and pivoting through logical views• I can browse through my content according to the

properties that are important to me• Create a Playlist/Auto Playlist• My music/Window Media.com recommendation

2. Music on demand

• Subscription services, for example, Pressplay or music locker service

• Terrestrial and stream radio/ TiVo (“trick play”) for radio

• Big bet on rich storage but the experience is optimized for music.

• A user should be able to access their music collection from wherever they are (where there’s a Longhorn PC).

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•Playback

End to end Music

1. One unified transport control

• Make a lightweight play control that user can access quickly

• Quick access to what’s playing• Includes visualizations/video-DJ type ( mix music

and picture or video)

2. One unified volume experience

• Create a consistent user expectation of how volume work

• Rationalize the interaction of system volume with other sounds of IM, mouse, click, and keyboard

• One unified transport control

• One unified volume experience

• Integrated with 10’ experience

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•IHV integration

End to end Music

1. UPnP media devices, like Audiotron, have the same view on the user’s music collection as the Longhorn PC

2. Music navigation on device is consistent with Longhorn My Music, for example, Windows eHome

3. Smartly auto synch with digital audio devices

4. Wireless download music in my car

• Home media devices become great PC peripherals with Longhorn

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•Sharing • You can access your music everywhere where there is a Longhorn PC

End to end Music

1. My Music is accessible from everywhere: Direct access across the home network, and streaming to work

• It is easy to view music content:a. On my home networkb. From web servicesc. From broadcasting

2. Share with others

• Burn CD (Print covers with album art and metadata)

3. My Friends’ Music

• A place in the Shell where you keep and manage all the music your buddies have shared with you.

• Napster but only you with your friends-publishing Playlist