Patent ID: 8423893

Claim:
A computer implemented method for configuring a set of networked media playback devices to provide multi-channel audio playback, the method including: (i) providing an interface that is configured to display a plurality of player icons, each player icon being indicative of a respective physical wireless speaker device; (ii) displaying, via the interface, a plurality of location icons, each location icon being indicative of a respective role in a multi-speaker arrangement, wherein each role is associated with a predefined audio channel for the multi-speaker arrangement; (iii) allowing a user to graphically manipulate the player icons; and (iv) being responsive to graphical manipulation of a selected one of the player icons to a selected one of the location icons for providing an instruction to configure a wireless speaker device of which the selected player icon is indicative to adopt the role in a multi-speaker arrangement of which the selected location icon is indicative; such that in response to an instruction to playback a multi-channel audio source via the multi-speaker arrangement, each wireless speaker device plays back the predefined audio channel for its adopted role.