Patent ID: 7586032

Claim:
A shake responsive portable media player comprising: a processor; a memory functionally coupled to the processor; a motion sensor functionally coupled to the processor and configured to detect shaking motions imparted on the portable media player by a user; and a control program operatively loaded into the memory including instructions executable by the processor to identify deliberately imparted characteristic shaking motions from the detected shaking motions and to change a play arrangement in dependence on the identified characteristic shaking motions, wherein the play arrangement comprises an element selected from a group consisting essentially of a predefined playlist of media items, a randomly generated playlist of media items, and at least one randomly selected media item, and wherein the change in the play arrangement comprises at least one action selected from a group consisting essentially of shuffling an order of media items in the predefined playlist, generating another randomized playlist of media items, and randomly selecting another media item for play.