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Cloud queue access control

  • US 10,666,634 B2
  • Filed: 09/26/2018
  • Issued: 05/26/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions executable by one or more processors of a mobile device to perform a method comprising:

  • displaying, via a controller interface of a streaming audio service on a graphical display of the mobile device, a queue control, wherein the controller interface is authenticated with the streaming audio service via a particular user account of the streaming audio service;

    receiving, via the queue control of the controller interface, input data to add one or more audio tracks to a cloud queue for playback by one or more playback devices of a media playback system, wherein each of the one or more playback devices are authenticated with the particular user account of the streaming audio service, and wherein the one or more playback devices exclude the mobile device;

    in response to receiving the input data to create a cloud queue for one or more playback devices of a media playback system, sending, via a network interface of the mobile device to one or more servers of the streaming audio service, one or more instructions to add the one or more audio tracks to a cloud queue;

    displaying, via the controller interface of the streaming audio service on the graphical display, transport controls to control playback of the cloud queue on the one or more playback devices of the media playback system;

    receiving, via the transport controls of the controller interface, input data to play back the cloud queue; and

    in response to receiving the input data to play back the cloud queue, sending, via the network interface of the mobile device to the one or more servers of the streaming audio service, one or more instructions to play back the cloud queue, wherein the one or more instructions to play back the cloud queue cause (i) the one or more servers to queue at least one audio track of the cloud queue in a local queue of the one or more playback devices and (ii) the one or more playback devices to play back the cloud queue via the local queue.

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