Systems and Methods for Creation and Use of a Timeline of Broadcast Streaming Media Programs

The method according to claim 16, further comprising:

• if the current schedule information differs from the broadcast streaming media program for a designated time, locating an alternative streamed media content program.

A system for scheduling broadcast streaming media for playback, the system comprising:

• a user device creating a timeline for a user having timeline data that temporally associates broadcast streaming media from a plurality of media sources;
• a server receiving a request for access to a user's timeline from the user device and in response sending the user device an address of a current broadcast streaming program from the timeline;
• wherein the user device transmits the user's timeline to the server and the server stores the timeline for latter retrieval and the in response to receiving the address, the user's device accesses a broadcast stream from a media source associated with the address.

A computer program product on a computer-readable medium for use with computer having computer code thereon for controlling broadcast streaming media to a user's Internet device, the broadcast streaming media being publicly accessible through resources on the Internet, the computer code comprising:

• computer code for receiving a timeline temporally associating broadcast streaming media programs from a plurality of Internet resources;
• computer code for identifying an address associated with a broadcast streaming media content program from the timeline;
• computer code for sending across the Internet the address of the broadcast streaming media program to the user's Internet device.

The computer program product according to claim 2333 wherein each broadcast streaming media program is a temporal subset of an audio stream.