Patent ID: 8423659

Claim:
A digital media apparatus comprising: a first independently clocked execution device forming part of a synchrony group over a local network, the synchrony group to include at least first and second independently clocked execution devices to play digital data in synchrony, the first independently clocked execution device configured to: retrieve, independent of the second independently clocked execution device, the digital data from a digital data source based on a digital data source location, wherein the digital data is not forwarded by the first independently clocked execution device over the local network for execution by the second independently clocked execution device in the synchrony group; and play the digital data in synchrony with the remainder of the execution devices in the synchrony group based at least in part on timing information used by the synchrony group, wherein the first independently clocked execution device is to continue to retrieve the digital data from the digital data source based on a subsequent offset computed from a starting offset associated with the digital data source and to correlate the retrieved digital data with subsequent offset and timing information received in a subsequent message.