Patent ID: 8874650

Claim:
A user device comprising: a communication interface communicatively coupling the user device to a network; and a control system, associated with the communication interface, adapted to: obtain a plurality of shared media collections from a plurality of second user devices; process media collection identifier information identifying media items from at least one of the plurality of shared media collections and a local media collection of a first user; and provide an aggregated media collection based on the processed media collection identifier information, the aggregated media collection comprising a primary list including a media item entry for each unique media item wherein for each unique media item that is in two or more media collections of the plurality of shared media collections, the unique media item is identified as the media item selected based on a score result based on the quality or the bit-rate of the corresponding media item in the two or more media collections so that the corresponding media item having the highest score is used as the media item entry in the primary list, wherein at least one of the preceding actions is performed on at least one electronic hardware component.