Patent ID: 7925970

Claim:
A method for generating suggestions based upon a play list, the method comprising: at an information generating apparatus: storing a first play list including grouped content; and generating information for use by an information processing apparatus in creating a second play list, said second playlist including some of the grouped content in the first play list, the information including metadata of the grouped content in the first play list, the generating means generating the information suggesting additional content related to the grouped content; and at the information processing apparatus: acquiring the information generated by the information generating apparatus; and creating means for determining whether each piece of the grouped content or the metadata of the grouped content in the information acquired by the information processing apparatus is currently stored in the information processing apparatus, and creating the second play list including data indicating whether or not each piece of the additional content in the second play list is currently stored in the information processing apparatus or was previously stored in the information processing apparatus owned by the user and transferred to another device owned by the user.