Method for editing playlist and multimedia reproducing apparatus employing the same

• US 8,316,322 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2008
• Issued: 11/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Kyung-min
• Primary Examiner(s): Roswell, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): TITCOMB, WILLIAM D
• Application Number:
  US12/038,070
• Publication Number:
  US 20090077482A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,728 Days
• Field of Search: 715821-822, 715/769
• US Class Current: 715/821
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files

Abstract

A method for editing a playlist and a multimedia reproducing apparatus employing the same. The method for editing a playlist includes displaying a list including a plurality of content stored on a content reproducing apparatus, determining a content registration state indicating whether specific content on the list is registered in a playlist if a specific command is input during the displaying of the list, and displaying a menu including the content registration state. Accordingly, since a plurality of playlists is supported, the user can edit the playlist more diversely and more conveniently.

Claims

1. A method for editing one or more playlists, the method comprising:

displaying a list including a plurality of content;

if a specific command is input with regard to a specific content of the plurality of content, determining whether there are any playlists, and if there exists at least one playlist, determining whether the specific content is included in each of the playlists;

if there exists at least one playlist that does not include the specific content, displaying a menu including an item to add the specific content to at least one playlist in which the specific content is not currently included, and if the item to add the specific content is selected, displaying a list of all playlists that do not include the specific content; and

if there exists at least one playlist that includes the specific content, displaying the menu including an item to delete the specific content from at least one playlist in which the specific content is currently included, and if the item to delete the specific content is selected, displaying a list of all playlists that include the specific content.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, if the specific content is registered in one of the plurality of playlists and is not registered in another playlist, the displaying of the menu comprises displaying a menu including both the menu item to add the specific content to at least one playlist and the menu item to delete the specific content from at least one playlist.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein, if a command to select the menu item to add the specific content is input, the displaying of the menu further comprises:

creating a list of all playlists where the specific content is not currently included; and

displaying the list of playlists.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising adding the specific content to at least one selected playlist if a command to select at least one of the listed playlists is input, and displaying the menu including the item to delete the specific content.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein, if a command to select the menu item to delete the specific content from at least one playlist is input, the displaying of the menu further comprises:

creating a list of all playlists where the specific content is currently included; and

displaying the list of playlists.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising deleting the specific content from at least one selected playlist if a command to select at least one of the listed playlists is input, and displaying the menu including the item to add the specific content.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the specific content comprises content that is being reproduced at the time of inputting the specific command.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the specific content comprises content highlighted at the time of inputting the specific command.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein, if the specific content comprises an item included in the playlist, the displaying of the menu further comprises displaying a menu including an item to delete all content corresponding to the playlist.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a content reproducing apparatus, cause the apparatus to perform the method according to claim 1.

10. A multimedia reproducing apparatus, comprising:

a display to display a list including a plurality of content;

a storage unit to store a plurality of playlists; and

a controller to determine, if a specific command is input with regard to a specific content, whether there are any playlists, and if there exists at least one playlist, to determine, for the specific content of the plurality of content, whether the specific content is included in each of the playlist, to display a menu including an item to add the specific content to at least one playlist in which the specific content is not currently included if there exists at least one playlist that does not include the specific content, and the menu including an item to delete the specific content from at least one playlist in which the specific content is currently registered if there exists at least one playlist that includes the specific content.

11. The multimedia reproducing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein if the specific content is included in at least one of the plurality of playlists and is not registered in at least one of the playlists, the controller displays on the display a menu including both the menu item to add the specific content to at least one playlist and the menu item to delete the specific content from at least one playlist.

12. The multimedia reproducing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein, if a command to select the menu item to add the specific content is input, the controller creates a list of playlists where the specific content is not currently included and displays the list of playlists on the display.

13. The multimedia reproducing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein, if a command to select at least one of the listed playlists is input, the controller adds the specific content to the at least one selected playlist, and displays the menu including the item to delete the specific content.

14. The multimedia reproducing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein, if a command to select the menu item to delete the specific content is input, the controller creates a list of the playlists where the specific content is currently included and displays the list of playlists on the display.

15. The multimedia reproducing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein, if a command to select at least one of the listed playlists is input, the controller deletes the specific content from the at least one selected playlist, and displays the menu including the item to add the specific content.

16. The multimedia reproducing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the specific content comprises content that is being reproduced at the time of inputting the specific command.

17. The multimedia reproducing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the specific content comprises content highlighted at the time of inputting the specific command.

19. A method of manipulating content stored in a content reproducing apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying a list of content stored on the content reproducing apparatus;

determining whether there are any playlists on the apparatus; and

for a specific content of the list, if there exist any playlists, determining a state of whether the content is included in each playlist and displaying the state in a form of a menu including an item to add the specific content to at least one playlist in which the specific content is not currently included and an item to delete the specific content from at least one playlist in which the specific content is currently included when a command is received with regard to the specific content while the list of content is displayed.