Patent ID: 8751611

Claim:
A method for playing music in an out-of-home pay-for-play establishment from a catalog of playable songs, the method comprising: enabling a plurality of registered users to execute respective login operations via respective mobile devices to indicate that the respective users are present at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment; in response to logged-in registered users selecting songs, collecting credits and adding the selected songs to a queue of songs to be played back at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, at least a portion of the queue being displayable for the registered users; and receiving, from logged-in registered users via their respective mobile devices, votes on the songs in the displayable portion of the queue, wherein tallied counts of votes placed by logged-in registered users are displayable to logged-in registered users; causing songs from the queue to be played at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, wherein the portion of the queue and the tallied counts of votes are displayable in a single screen view on mobile devices that the logged-in registered users used to execute their respective login operations, the single screen view further including an indication of a currently playing song at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, and an identifier of a user who selected the currently playing song if any, for the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, wherein the portion of the queue, the tallied counts of votes, the indication of the currently playing song, and the identifier of the user who selected the currently playing song if any, for the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment is displayable on a standalone display.