System and method for personalizing playback content through interaction with a playback device

A method of personalizing media content rendered by a media playback device configured to render sequences of content items corresponding to a plurality of personalized radio stations, comprising:

• receiving, from a server, said media content wherein said media content includes a plurality of the content items concurrently stored within a memory of said media playback device;
• receiving user input through a station attributes control of the device, said station attributes control facilitating selection, in response to the user input, of a first attribute value;
• and
• updating, in response to the user input, a first station profile corresponding to one of the plurality of personalized radio stations;
• sending, to the server, a current station inventory associated with the first station profile wherein the current station inventory is based upon the plurality of content items stored within the memory;
• and
• receiving, from the server, one or more content items chosen based upon the current station inventory wherein the one or more content items are received and stored by the media playback device from the server during periods in which the media playback device is connected over a network to the server;
• wherein a first of the sequences of the content items corresponding to the one of the plurality of personalized radio stations is selected by a content sequencer for rendering by said device based upon the current station inventory and the first station profile and wherein at least a portion of said media content is rendered when said media playback device is not in communication with said server and wherein said updating said first station profile results in a change in a playback frequency on the one of the plurality of personalized radio stations of content items classified by said first attribute value.

A non-transitory machine readable medium having instructions thereon, the instructions being executed by a processor to perform a method of personalizing media content rendered by a media playback device configured to render sequences of content items corresponding to a plurality of personalized radio stations, the method comprising:

• displaying, on a display element of the device, information associated with a first of a plurality of the content items concurrently stored within the device, said information based at least in part on metadata associated with the plurality of content items;
• receiving user input through a control element of the device, said control element facilitating selection, in response to said user input, of a first attribute value;
• updating a first station profile of a plurality of station profiles included in a user profile in response to the selection of the first attribute value updating a first station profile of a plurality of station profiles included in a user profile in response to the first attribute value wherein the plurality of station profiles correspond to the plurality of personalized radio stations;
• sending, to a server, current station inventories associated with the plurality of station profiles wherein the current station inventories are based upon the plurality of content items stored within the device;
• and
• receiving, from the server, one or more content items chosen based upon the current station inventories wherein the one or more content items are received by the media playback device from the server during periods in which the media playback device is connected over a network to the server;
• wherein a first of the sequences of the content items corresponding to a first personalized radio station of the plurality of stations is selected by a content sequencer for rendering by said device based upon a first of the current station inventories and the first station profile and wherein said updating said first station profile results in a change in a playback frequency on the first personalized radio station of content items classified by said first attribute value and wherein at least a portion of said rendering occurs when said media playback device is not in communication with the server.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions thereon, the instructions being executed by a processor to perform a method of personalizing media content rendered by a media playback device configured to render sequences of content items corresponding to a plurality of personalized radio stations, the method comprising:

• receiving, from a server, said media content wherein said media content includes a plurality of the content items concurrently stored within a memory of said media playback device;
• receiving user input through a station attributes control of the device, said station attributes control facilitating selection, in response to said user input, of a first attribute value;
• updating, in response to the selection of the first attribute value, a first station profile corresponding to one of the plurality of personalized radio stations;
• sending, to the server, a current station inventory associated with the first station profile wherein the current station inventory is based upon the plurality of content items stored within the memory;
• and
• receiving, from the server, one or more content items chosen based upon the current station inventory wherein the one or more content items are received by the media playback device from the server during periods in which the media playback device is connected over a network to the server;
• wherein a first of the sequences of the content items corresponding to the one of the plurality of personalized radio stations is selected by a content sequencer for rendering by said device based upon the current station inventory and the first station profile and wherein at least a portion of said media content is rendered when said media playback device is not in communication with said server and wherein said updating said first station profile results in a change in a playback frequency on the one of the plurality of personalized radio stations of content items classified by said first attribute value.