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A digital music library builder including an analog-to-digital converter for converting analog audio into digital audio, an optical character processor for recognizing characters within an image, a meta-data extractor for identifying meta-data for a song within the recognized characters, an audio pa

A digital music library builder including an analog-to-digital converter for converting analog audio into digital audio, an optical character processor for recognizing characters within an image, a meta-data extractor for identifying meta-data for a song within the recognized characters, an audio parser for marking the start and end of a song within the digital audio, and a database manager for associating the identified meta-data with the marked song, within a digital music library. A method is also described and claimed.

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What is claimed is: 1. A digital music library builder comprising: a receiver to receive broadcast audio from a first broadcast station, and to receive a broadcast image from a second broadcast station; a song extractor, coupled to the receiver, to extract a song from the received broadcast audio,

What is claimed is: 1. A digital music library builder comprising: a receiver to receive broadcast audio from a first broadcast station, and to receive a broadcast image from a second broadcast station; a song extractor, coupled to the receiver, to extract a song from the received broadcast audio, comprising an audio parser to mark the start and end of a song within the received broadcast audio; a meta-data generator, coupled to the receiver, to identify meta-data for the extracted song from the received broadcast image, comprising a luminance extractor to remove color burst noise from the received broadcast image; and a memory, coupled to the song extractor and the meta-data generator, wherein a memory manager automatically stores the extracted song in a digital music library in the memory and automatically associates the identified meta-data with the stored song, within the digital music library. 2. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the meta-data extractor comprises an optical character recognizer to recognize text characters within the received broadcast image with the aid of a template describing the general layout of the image. 3. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the digital music library is structured as a file system. 4. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the digital music library is structured as a database. 5. The digital music library builder of claim 4 wherein the digital music library is an MP3 database. 6. The digital music library builder of claim 4 wherein the digital music library comprises WMA files. 7. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the memory is a removable memory unit. 8. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the memory is a hard disk drive. 9. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the meta-data includes a song title. 10. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the meta-data includes an artist. 11. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the meta-data includes a genre. 12. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the meta-data includes an album. 13. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the meta-data includes a song length. 14. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the meta-data includes a date. 15. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the meta-data generator tracks a number of repetitions of a song that is received repeatedly by the receiver. 16. The digital music library builder of claim 15 further comprising a digital rights manager for restricting access to the song, based on the tracked number of repetitions of the song. 17. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the extracted song is selectively stored based upon pre-defined characteristics. 18. The digital music library builder of claim 17 wherein the pre-defined characteristics relate to the identified meta-data. 19. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the first and second broadcast stations are the same broadcast station. 20. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the first and second broadcast stations are different broadcast stations. 21. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the first broadcast station is a cable or a satellite broadcast station. 22. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the second broadcast station is a television broadcast station. 23. The digital music library builder of claim 1 wherein the second broadcast station is an Internet website.