Patent ID: 9671997
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04R

Claim:
1. A method comprising: causing a control device to display a graphical user interface that comprises an indication of a first zone of a media playback system, wherein the media playback system comprises the first zone and a plurality of additional zones, and wherein the graphical user interface does not comprise an indication of any of the plurality of additional zones, wherein each zone in the media playback system comprises at least one playback device; detecting, via the graphical user interface of the control device, an input that indicates a command to (i) identify a second zone from the plurality of additional zones, (ii) cause the first zone to form a zone group with the identified second zone and (iii) cause the first zone and the identified second zone to play back a target media in synchrony; and based on the detected input, (i) identifying the second zone from the plurality of additional zones, (ii) causing the first zone to form a zone group with the identified second zone and (iii) causing the first zone and the identified second zone to play back the target media in synchrony.