Methods and systems for use in providing playback of variable length content in a fixed length framework

A method of providing playback of content in association with a portable storage medium, the method comprises:

• identifying, at a playback device, a plurality of clips within a clip rotation of a clip template defined in accordance with a playlist, where the clip template and the playlist are stored at the playback device;
• accessing supplemental content, where the supplemental content is conformed into a series of conformed content stream clips;
• initiating playback of a first set of the series of the conformed content stream clips in accordance with the playlist and the clip template, where the first set of conformed content stream clips is a first subset of the series of conformed content stream clips, and where each conformed content stream clip of the first set of conformed content stream clips corresponds with a different one of the plurality of clips within the clip rotation;
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• initiating playback of a second set of the series of the conformed content stream clips in accordance with the playlist and the clip template, where the second set of conformed content stream clips comprise a second subset of the series of conformed content stream clips that is different than the first subset, and where each conformed content stream clip of the second set of conformed content stream clips corresponds with a different one of the plurality of clips within the clip rotation.

A method of providing playback of content in association with a portable storage medium, the method comprises:

• accessing, at a playback device, a first playlist of a file structure stored on a portable storage medium being directly accessed by the playback device;
• accessing supplemental content not recorded on the portable storage medium;
• playing back the supplemental content in accordance with the first playlist, wherein the playing back the supplemental content comprises:
• playing back a plurality of content stream clips of the supplemental content while rotating through a plurality of clip information files, including first clip information file, where the plurality of clip information files is less than the plurality of content stream clips of the supplemental content, and that each of the plurality of content stream clips of the supplemental content are played back in association with one of plurality of the clip information files;
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• wherein the playing back the plurality of content stream clips comprises renaming a first content stream clip such that the renamed first content stream clip corresponds with the first clip information file of the plurality of clip information files.