Method for operating an infotainment system

A method for operating an infotainment system of a motor vehicle to provide an overview of a plurality of digital audio records, comprising:

• classifying, by a microcontroller, the digital audio records into a plurality of digital audio groups in accordance with a selection criterion;
• determining, by the microcontroller, a value of a rating variable with respect to each digital audio record and rating the digital audio record with the rating variable, the rating variable indicating a relevance of the digital audio record to a user of the infotainment system;
• within each digital audio group determining, by the microcontroller, a ranking list of the digital audio records classified in the digital audio group, the ranking list being determined based on values of the rating variable;
• for each digital audio record, generating, by the microcontroller, a digital image representing the digital audio record;
• classifying, by the microcontroller, each image into an image group in a manner corresponding to how the digital audio records are classified into the digital audio groups;
• displaying, on a display area of a screen of a display device of the infotainment system, the images which are arranged, by the microcontroller, as spaced-apart image groups;
• within each image group, positioning, by the microcontroller, the images on the display area in a manner corresponding to how the associated digital audio records are ranked in the ranking list, the images being positioned such that adjacent images within each image group are positioned more closely with respect to one another than adjacent image groups are positioned with respect to one another, the image groups being arranged analogously to continents or promontories in a navigation map on the display area;
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• in response to receiving an input navigating to images from a first image group among the image groups, displaying images in a center of the first image group in a three-dimensional manner so that the images in the center of the first image group appear tilted obliquely upward relative to other images in the first image group,
• wherein displaying images from the first image group includes displaying outer images from the first image group to appear to have an angle of tilt that is less than an angle of tilt of inner images from the first image group, the outer images being further from the center of the first image group than the inner images, and digital audio records corresponding to the outer images have a lower ranking than digital audio records corresponding to the inner images.