Patent ID: 8224899

Claim:
A method comprising: discovering, by a first user device, a plurality of shared media collections made available to a first user of the first user device by a plurality of second users of a plurality of second user devices; enabling the first user to select one or more shared media collections from the plurality of shared media collections to aggregate with a local media collection of the first user at the first user device; aggregating, by the first user device, the one or more shared media collections selected by the first user and the local media collection of the first user to provide an aggregate media collection for the first user at the first user device; and enabling the first user to utilize the aggregate media collection at the first user device, wherein aggregating the one or more shared media collections selected by the first user and the local media collection of the first user comprises processing media collection information identifying media items in the local media collection and media collection information identifying media items in the one or more shared media collections to provide a primary list including a media item entry for each unique media item; wherein the processing media collection information identifying media items comprises processing information selected from the group consisting of: a globally unique identifier (GUID), a title, data relating to a quality of media items, data identifying a bitrate of media items, and data identifying an availability of media items.