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Systems and methods for networked music playback

  • US 9,654,821 B2
  • Filed: 12/30/2011
  • Issued: 05/16/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • causing, via a controller, a graphical interface to display a control interface including one or more transport controls to control playback by the controller;

    after connecting to a local area network via a network interface, identifying a particular zone group of at least two playback devices connected to the local area network;

    causing, via the controller, the graphical interface to display a selectable option for transferring playback from the controller;

    detecting, via the controller, a set of inputs to transfer playback from the controller to a particular zone group of at least two playback devices, wherein the set of inputs comprises;

    (i) a selection of the selectable option for transferring playback from the controller and (ii) a selection of the particular zone group connected to the local area network;

    after detecting the set of inputs to transfer playback from the controller to the particular zone group, causing playback to be transferred from the controller to the particular zone group, wherein transferring playback from the controller to the particular zone group comprises;

    (a) causing one or more first cloud servers to add multimedia content to a local playback queue of the particular zone group;

    (b) causing playback at the controller to be stopped; and

    (c) modifying the one or more transport controls of the control interface to control playback by the particular zone group; and

    causing the particular zone group to play back the multimedia content, wherein the particular zone group playing back the multimedia content comprises at least one of the playback devices in the particular zone group retrieving the multimedia content from one or more second cloud servers of a streaming content service and playing back the retrieved multimedia content in synchrony with at least one other of the at least two playback devices in the particular zone group.

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