Patent ID: 7590659

Claim:
A method of displaying menu information on a display associated with a media player, said menu information enabling a user to navigate one or more media files using the media player, said media files each having a media type associated therewith and being adapted for rendering by the media player as a function of the media type, said method comprising: reading a menu header having references to one or more selected media files and a media type associated with each respective one of said selected media files, each of said media files being adapted for rendering by the media player as a function of the media type associated therewith; adapting the read menu header by filtering the references to the selected media files as a function of a media type associated with the media player, wherein the media type associated with the media player identifies at least one media type that the player is capable of rendering; and displaying to a user on the display associated with the media player only menu information associated with the media player as indicated by the adapted menu header, wherein the displayed menu information enables a user to navigate among one or more media files using the media player.