Patent ID: 7667124

Claim:
In a portable, pocket-sized multimedia asset player having a display on a front face of the media asset player, a method of selecting and playing a multimedia asset from a group of multimedia assets stored therein, comprising: displaying at a home interface on the display, the home interface including at least: a playlist list item corresponding to a number of playlists stored in the multimedia asset player, wherein each playlist is a group of multimedia assets, an artists list item corresponding to all of a number of artists each of which is associated with at least one of the stored multimedia assets, and a songs list item associated with each of the stored multimedia assets; highlighting a desired one of the playlist list item, the artists list item, or the songs list item; receiving a selection of the highlighted item; and automatically transitioning to a second interface based upon the selected item, wherein when the selected item is the artists list item, then the second interface is an artists interface that includes an all item corresponding to all artists stored in the multimedia asset player and a list of named artists each of which has at least one associated song stored in the multimedia asset player, and wherein said method further comprises: receiving a selection of the all item from the artist interface; automatically transitioning to an albums interface that includes an all item and a list of albums associated with each of the named artists; receiving a selection of the all item from the album interface; and automatically transitioning to an all songs interface that includes a list of all songs stored in the multimedia asset player.