Patent ID: 8271549

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, a request to load at least one new media content item on a storage of a personal media device; comparing a size of the at least one new media content item with an amount of storage space remaining on the personal media device to determine the personal media device has insufficient storage space; in response to determine the personal media has insufficient storage space to load the at least one new media content, rendering at least one old media content item in the personal media device; wherein rendering the at least one old media is based, at least in part, upon whether the at least one old media content item stored on the personal media device was played on the personal media device, whether the at least one old media content item stored on the personal media device was added in response to a request from a user of the personal media device to add the at least one old media content item, and whether the at least one old media content item stored on the personal media device was added automatically by a media distribution system and not in response to a request from a user of the personal media device to add the old media content item; ascertaining a relative weight associated with the at least one old media content item stored on the personal media device, the relative weight corresponding to a likelihood that the at least one old media content item will be rendered on the personal media device, wherein a lower relative weight is associated with the at least one old media content item when the at least one old media content item stored on the personal device was added automatically by a media distribution system, and wherein a higher relative weight is associated with the at least one old media content item when the at least one old media content item was added in response to a request from a user of the personal media device.