Patent ID: 8719867

Claim:
A media device, comprising: a memory to store executable instructions; and a controller coupled to the memory, wherein the controller, responsive to executing the instructions, performs operations comprising: receiving a selection of first media content; presenting in a graphical user interface a first icon representative of the first media content and a second icon representative of second media content, wherein the second media content was created and published in temporal proximity to the first media content; presenting in the graphical user interface a mapping of the first icon and the second icon representing a relationship between the first media content and the second media content with respect to a mapping criterion; obtaining a play list based on the first and second media content, wherein the play list is generated based on playlist criteria and the relationship between the first media content and the second media content, wherein a pre-determined weighting factor is applied to the playlist criteria, and wherein the pre-determined weighting factor is selected based on user input; and retrieving play list content corresponding to the play list from a media content source, wherein the play list content is located using metadata pointers associated with the first media content and the second media content, the media content source being remote from the media device and in communication with the media device over a network, wherein the mapping criterion is a musical genre, and wherein the first icon is presented as mapped to the second icon in accordance with the first media content and the second media content being associated by genre.