System and method for synchronized playback of downloaded streams

A system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor operable to:
• establish connections with user applications executing on a plurality of user devices;
• receive a request from one of the user applications to start a streaming session;
• start a streaming session in response to the request from the one of the user applications;
• identifying a list of user tracks stored on the memory selected by a user associated with the one of the user applications;
• send a notification to at least one other user application that the streaming session has started;
• receive a request from the at least one other user application to join the streaming session;
• add the at least one other user application to the streaming session;
• add tracks selected by another user associated with the at least one other user application to the list of user tracks;
• stream content from the list of content to each of the plurality of user applications synchronously such that each of the plurality of user applications plays the same content at approximately the same time;
• schedule an operation to stream a next track in the list of user tracks in response to the at least one advance track request;
• generate a timing key associated with the at least one advance track request, wherein the timing key is indicative of the time at which the at least one advance track request was received;
• verify whether the timing key is the most recent timing key generated:
• if the timing key is the most recent timing key generated, execute the scheduled operation to stream the next track;
• if the timing key is not the most recent timing key generated, cancel the scheduled operation to stream the next track;
• receive at least one comment from one of the user devices;
• and
• send the at least one comment to a remainder of the plurality of user devices for display through the user applications.

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable non-transitory storage medium having computer readable program code embodied thereon, the computer readable program code configured for:
• establishing connections with user applications executing on a plurality of user devices;
• receiving a request from one of the user applications to start a streaming session;
• starting a streaming session in response to the request from the one of the user applications;
• identifying a list of user tracks stored on the memory selected by a user associated with the one of the user applications;
• sending a notification to at least one other user application that the streaming session has started;
• receiving a request from the at least one other user application to join the streaming session;
• adding the at least one other user application to the streaming session;
• adding tracks selected by another user associated with the at least one other user application to the list of user tracks;
• streaming content from the list of content to each of the plurality of user applications synchronously such that each of the plurality of user applications plays the same content at approximately the same time;
• scheduling an operation to stream a next track in the list of user tracks in response to the at least one advance track request;
• generating a timing key associated with the at least one advance track request, wherein the timing key is indicative of the time at which the at least one advance track request was received;
• verifying whether the timing key is the most recent timing key generated:
• if the timing key is the most recent timing key generated, executing the scheduled operation to stream the next track;
• if the timing key is not the most recent timing key generated, canceling the scheduled operation to stream the next track;
• receiving at least one comment from one of the user devices;
• and
• sending the at least one comment to a remainder of the plurality of user devices for display through the user applications.