SYNCHRONIZATION OF BUFFERED AUDIO DATA WITH LIVE BROADCAST

摘要

Various techniques relating to the buffering of a live audio broadcast on an electronic device 10 and the subsequently playback the buffered data are provided. In one embodiment, the playback speed of the buffered data may be increased relative to the actual speed at which the data was originally broadcasted 126. If the buffered playback (using the increased playback speed) synchronizes or catches up to the live broadcast, the electronic device may disable buffering and output the live stream instead 128. This decreases processing demands by lowering processing cycles required for buffering (encoding, etc.) and playback of the buffered data (decoding, etc.), thereby reducing power consumption.