Remote access of media items

摘要

Methods and systems that facilitate the downloading of media items to a first network device from a second network device are disclosed. A plurality of media items are identified Media item metadata associated with the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the first network device. Media item content data associate with a first subset of the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the first network device. In this manner, only media item metadata associate with a second subset of the plurality of media items is stored on the first network device.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
obtaining, from a first network device, metadata associated with a plurality of episodic media items in a media item library, the metadata at least including a release date of the media item, wherein the release date is a date that the locally-stored episodic media item was initially released by a provider of the plurality of episodic media items; determining that the client device has remaining unused memory available; after playing a locally-stored episodic media item:
determining, based on the release date, that an episode released sequentially after a currently playing episode is not stored locally on the client device and is available in the first network device;automatically pre-fetching the episode released sequentially after a currently playing episode without downloading all other episodes in the plurality of episodic media items; storing the episode released sequentially after a currently playing episode as a locally-stored episodic media item; and
deleting the currently playing episode after the currently playing episode coming to an end.