Patent ID: 7707231

Claim:
In a media environment having playlists, each said playlist having a plurality of media files, said playlists being automatically generated from a plurality of media files stored on a computer-readable medium, a method for updating the playlists comprising: identifying a content edit, said content edit indicating media content to be added to or deleted from the plurality of media files, said media content having metadata associated therewith; in response to said identifying a content edit, determining, as a function of the metadata associated with the media content, one or more of the playlists inconsistent with the identified content edit; in response to said determining, setting an inconsistency flag associated with each of the playlists inconsistent with the identified content edit, said set inconsistency flag indicating that the playlist is inconsistent with the identified content edit; in response to said setting, identifying to a user each of the playlists having the inconsistency flag associated therewith that is set, wherein identifying to the user the playlists having the set inconsistency flag associated therewith comprises shading a name associated with each of said playlists having the inconsistency flag associated therewith that is set thereby indicating to the user that the shaded playlist is inconsistent with the media content to be added to or deleted from the plurality of media files; and in response to said identify playlists having the inconsistency flag, updating the playlists identified to the user per the received content edit so that the playlist has been fixed and is consistent with the identified content edit, wherein said determining, said setting of the inconsistency flag, and said updating occur automatically in response to said identifying the content edit.