Patent ID: 9690466
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06F,G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A method performed by a computing device, the method comprising: configuring a single play queue comprising network addresses of a plurality of multimedia items for playback by one or more playback devices separate from the computing device, wherein the single play queue of network addresses is stored on at least one of the one or more playback devices, wherein the single play queue, when executed by at least one of the one or more playback devices causes the one or more playback devices to play the multimedia items stored at the network addresses in the single play queue, and wherein the single play queue of network addresses comprises at least (i) a network address for a single track playable by the one or more playback devices and (ii) a network address for an internet radio stream playable by the one or more playback devices, wherein the network address for the single track is different than the network address for the internet radio stream; sending one or more commands to execute the single play queue to at least one of the one or more playback devices, thereby causing the one or more playback devices to execute the single play queue; and while the one or more playback devices are executing the single play queue, displaying a graphical representation of the single play queue via a graphical user interface associated with the computing device, wherein the graphical representation of the single play queue indicates that the single track is playing when the one or more playback devices are playing the single track from the single track's corresponding network address stored in the single play queue, and the graphical representation of the single play queue indicates that the internet radio stream is playing when the one or more playback devices are playing the internet radio stream from the internet radio stream's corresponding network address stored in the single play queue.