Patent ID: 8826134

Claim:
A method of managing playlists, comprising: displaying a current playlist and one or more playlists that intersect the current playlist at a current media item; when a pivot command to pivot from the current playlist to a jump playlist is received, wherein the jump playlist is a playlist that does not intersect the current playlist, (a) first moving to a next media item of a pivoted playlist, wherein the pivoted playlist intersects the current playlist at the next media item, (b) next moving to a next media item of the pivoted playlist that intersects the jump playlist, (c) displaying the jump playlist and the one or more playlists that intersect the jump playlist at the next media item of the jump playlist; triggering a request to a content provider to prepare and deliver the jump playlist as a playlist of recommended media items, which includes shorter versions of media items provided by the content provider to encourage the purchase of full versions of the media items.