Patent ID: 8214740
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for playing back media items, comprising: detecting a random playback mode; defining a random playback queue in which media items are arbitrarily ordered; identifying a media item in the random playback queue that is associated with a preset playback sequence; retrieving at least one other media item of the preset playback sequence; introducing the retrieved at least one other media item in the playback queue, wherein the identified media item and the retrieved at least one media item are ordered according to the preset playback sequence; identifying another media item in the random playback queue that is associated with the preset playback sequence; and reordering the identified another media item in the random playback queue, wherein the identified media item and the reordered another media item are ordered according to the preset playback sequence in the random playback queue.