Patent ID: 8762843

Claim:
A method of navigating from a first track to a second track in an ordered listing of tracks having at least one metadata category associated with each of the tracks, the method executable on a device and comprising: receiving a command signal that identifies a navigation operation and a metadata qualifier, wherein the tracks are either video tracks or audio tracks and the metadata qualifier in the command signal corresponds to either artist, album, genre, track title, director, producer, studio distributing the film, or screenwriter; selecting from the ordered listing a second track based on 1) a comparison of a first value for a metadata category derived from the metadata qualifier with the second track's value for the metadata category and 2) the navigation operation identified in the command signal, wherein the first value for the metadata category is determined by examining the first track's metadata category corresponding to the metadata qualifier; and navigating from the first track in the ordered listing to the second track in the ordered listing based on the selection.