Patent ID: 8131676

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting a change to media-location data having one or more playlists containing one or more media location paths that each address media content, the media-location data located at a data location specified by a data-location path, the data-location path being an internal property of an application, the detecting a change including: registering the data-location path with an external entity capable of managing data from one or more data locations, the external entity being external to the application and located on a same computing device as the application, the external entity capable of monitoring the media-location data at the data location for changes; and receiving a notification from the external entity indicating that the media-location data has changed; and responsive to detecting the change, updating one or more media-playing entities with the media-location data that was changed, the one or more media-playing entities being located within the application and referencing the media-location data located at the data location specified by the data-location path through an internal entity located within the application.