USER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING THE OPERATION OF NETWORKED MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICES
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Abstract
Described herein are systems and methods for managing the operation of networked media playback devices. One embodiment includes Graphical User Interface for coordinating playback of media via one or more networked wireless speaker devices. In particular, a user is able to “drag and drop” audio tracks to icons that are respectively indicative of one or more networked wireless speaker devices, thereby to affect playback of those audio tracks via those speaker devices.
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35 Claims
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21. A method for managing the operation of networked media playback devices, the method including:
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providing an interface for displaying a plurality of player icons that are each indicative of a respective one or more networked media playback devices; (ii) providing an interface for displaying a graphical representation of a media library having a plurality of items; (iii) allowing a user to graphically manipulate one or more items in the media library; and (iv) being responsive to graphical manipulation of one or more items in the media library to one of the player icons for providing an instruction to commence playback of the one or more items at the one or more networked media playback devices of which the player icon is indicative. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method for managing the operation of networked media playback devices, the method including:
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(i) providing an interface for displaying a plurality of player icons that are indicative of a respective none or more networked media playback devices; (ii) allowing a user to graphically manipulate the player icons; (iii) being responsive to graphical manipulation of a first one or more of the player icons to a second one of the player icons for providing an instruction to define a networked media playback zone/group including; (a) the none or more networked media playback devices of which the first one or more of the player icons are indicative; and (b) the none or more networked media playback devices of which the second one of the player icons is indicative; and (iv) displaying in the interface a player icon indicative of the defined networked media playback zone/group. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32)
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33. A method for managing the operation of networked media playback devices, the method including:
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(i) providing an interface for displaying a plurality of player icons that are indicative of a wireless speaker device, and a plurality of location icons that are respectively indicative of roles in a multi-speaker arrangement; (ii) allowing a user to graphically manipulate the player icons; and (iii) being responsive to graphical manipulation of one of the player icons to one of the location icons for providing an instruction configure the speaker device of which that icon is indicative to adopt the role in a multi-speaker arrangement of which the location icon is indicative. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35)
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