Patent ID: 9672213
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: maintaining, via a computing device, a playback history for media items played by a media playback system, the media playback system comprising one or more playback zones, wherein each of the one or more playback zones comprise at least one respective playback device, and wherein the playback history comprises, for each of the media items, (i) an indication of a playback zone in which the media item was played, (ii) a time at which the media item was played, and (iii) metadata associated with the media item, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of an album associated with the media item, a genre associated with the media item, and a track name associated with the media item; receiving, via a network interface of the computing device, a request for media items played (i) during a given time period by the one or more playback zones and (ii) having specified metadata; and based on the request for media items played during the given time period by the one or more playback zones, transmitting, via the network interface of the computing device to the media playback system, a portion of the playback history, wherein the portion of the playback history identifies particular media items (i) played by the one or more playback zones at during the given time period and (ii) having the specified metadata, and wherein transmitting the portion of the playback history causes (1) the particular media items to be added to a playback queue of a given playback zone of the one or more playback zones and (2) an indication of the particular media items to be displayed by a graphical display of a controller device configured to control playback by the one or more playback zones, wherein the controller device is different from the at least one respective playback device of the one or more playback zones.