Navigating media content by groups

摘要

Grouping media files via playlists on a computer-readable medium. One or more media files are selected according to a grouping criterion to define one or more playlists from the media files. A container group is associated with the playlists and stores values identifying each of the playlists associated with the container group along with references to each of the playlists.

主权项

1. A computerized method executable by a processor of a computing device comprising:
receiving a list of user-selected media files having associated grouping criteria to define a first playlist, said selected media files being accessible by the computing device; selecting one or more additional media files based on the user-selected media files according to a grouping criteria of the user-selection-based associated grouping criteria to define a second playlist; generating a container group associated with the first playlist and the second playlist, said generated container group comprising a first value identifying the first playlist and a second value identifying the second playlist, wherein the first playlist references the user-selected media files and the second playlist references the user-selected media files and the second selected additional media files selected from user-selection-based associated grouping criteria defined therein; and providing the first playlist, the second playlist, the user-selected media files associated with the first playlist, the user-selected media files and the additional media files selected according to user-selection-based associated grouping criteria and associated with the second playlist, and the container group to a user.