Digital downloading jukebox system with user-tailored music management, communications, and other tools

An electronic device operable to facilitate the playback of music from a catalog of playable songs in an out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, the electronic device comprising:

• at least one processor configured to at least:
• enable users to execute login operations to indicate that the users are present at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment;
• in response to a logged-in user selecting a song, facilitate collection of a number of credits in exchange for the selected song being added to a list of songs for the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment;
• facilitate the playback of songs from the list in the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment;
• and
• enable logged-in users to vote on at least some of the songs in the list;
• prevent users who have not logged in from placing votes,
• wherein:
• a user interface provided to portable electronic devices operated by respective logged-in users at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment is arranged to display (a) at least a portion of the catalog of playable songs, (b) at least a portion of the list, (c) tallied votes made with respect to at least those songs in the portion of the list, and (d) an indication of a song currently playing at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment;
• and
• the catalog of songs is restrictable such that only a partial subset of songs is available for selection by the logged-in registered users at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, the catalog of playable songs being restrictable through selection of at least one predefined list of playable music selected from a plurality of such predefined lists, the predefined lists of playable music being independent of genre lists, the at least one predefined list of playable music being selectable by an authorized user via a user interface not accessible to the logged-in registered users.

A digital audio reproduction system comprising at least one processor and being configured to facilitate playback of music at a plurality of out-of-home pay-for-play establishments, the system comprising a catalog of playable songs, each out-of-home pay-for-play establishment being provided with an electronic device, wherein the system is configured, for each said out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, to at least:

• enable a plurality of users to perform login operations via respective user devices to indicate that the respective users are present at the respective out-of-home pay-for-play establishment;
• in response to a logged-in registered user selecting a song, facilitate collection of a number of credits from the logged-in registered user in exchange for the selected song being added to a list of songs for playback at the respective out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, at least a portion of the list being made visible to the logged-in registered users at the respective out-of-home pay-for-play establishment;
• receive from at least some logged-in registered users at the respective out-of-home pay-for-play establishment votes in connection with one or more songs in the list of the respective out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, wherein tallied votes placed by the logged-in registered users are also made visible to the logged-in registered users;
• and
• cause songs from the list to be played at the respective out-of-home pay-for-play establishment,
• wherein, for each said out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, the portion of the list and the tallied votes are displayable via user interfaces on the user devices that the logged-in registered users used to execute their respective login operations, the user interfaces including an indication of a currently playing song at the respective out-of-home pay-for-play establishment, and an identifier of a user who selected the currently playing song if any, for the respective out-of-home pay-for-play establishment,
• wherein the catalog of songs is restrictable on an out-of-home pay-for-play establishment by out-of-home pay-for-play establishment basis such that only partial subsets of songs are available for selection by the logged-in registered users at the out-of-home pay-for-play establishments where the catalog of songs has been correspondingly restricted, and
• wherein the catalog of playable songs in the out-of-home pay-for-play establishment is restrictable by a proprietor of the establishment through selection of at least one predefined list of playable music selected from a plurality of such predefined lists, the predefined lists of playable music being not coextensive with genre lists, the at least one predefined list of playable music being selectable by the proprietor of the establishment via a user interface not accessible to the logged-in registered users.