# US 2016/0253147 A1 · Audio Settings > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2016/0253147 A1 - Document ID: US20160253147A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/149,683 - Filed: 2016-05-09 - Published: 2016-09-01 - Earliest claimed: 2014-07-22 - Assignees: Sonos, Inc. - Applicants: Sonos, Inc. - Inventors: Ron Kuper - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20160253147A1 ## CPC - G06F 3/165: {Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path} - G06F 3/16: Sound input; Sound output (speech processing G10L) - G06F 3/162: {Interface to dedicated audio devices, e.g. audio drivers, interface to CODECs} - G06F 16/639: {using playlists} - G11B 27/105: {of operating discs} - G11B 27/34: Indicating arrangements {(indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D)} - G11B 27/36: Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing {(for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06)} - H04R 3/12: for distributing signals to two or more loudspeakers {(specially adapted for hearing aids H04R25/407)} - H04R 27/00: Public address systems (circuits for preventing acoustic reaction H04R3/02; circuits for distributing signals to loudspeakers H04R3/12; {monitoring or testing arrangements for public address systems H04R29/007}; amplifiers H03F) - H04R 2227/005: Audio distribution systems for home, i.e. multi-room use - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) - H04R: LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS (producing sounds with frequency not determined by supply frequency G10K) ## Abstract Techniques are provided for a playback device to play a media item using an audio setting corresponding to the media item and characteristics of the playback device. An example implementation involves a first playback device transmitting, to a first computing device, information indicating one or more characteristics of the first playback device and queue information indicating one or more media items in a playback queue to be played by the first playback device. The example implementation may further involve receiving, from the first computing device, one or more audio settings associated with the one or more media items, the one or more audio settings corresponding to the one or more media items and the one or more characteristics of the first playback device and playing a first media item of the one or more media items according to a first audio setting of the one or more audio settings. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method, comprising: transmitting, via a first playback device over one or more networks to a first computing device, information indicating one or more characteristics of the first playback device; transmitting, via the first playback device over the one or more networks to the first computing device, queue information indicating one or more media items in a playback queue to be played by the first playback device, wherein the one or more media items are retrievable for playback by the first playback device from a second computing device that is physically different from the first computing device; receiving, via the first playback device over the one or more networks from the first computing device, one or more audio settings associated with the one or more media items, the one or more audio settings corresponding to the one or more media items and the one or more characteristics of the first playback device; and playing, via the first playback device, a first media item of the one or more media items according to a first audio setting of the one or more audio settings. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: modifying, via the first playback device, audio data of the first media item based on the first audio setting, and wherein playing the first media item comprises: playing, via the first playback device, the modified audio data of the first media item. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the queue information comprises: in response to determining that the first media item is to be played next, transmitting a request for audio settings for the first media item. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving, via the first playback device, an instruction to add the first media item to the playback queue; and in response to receiving the instruction, transmitting a request for audio settings for the first media item. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein a group comprises the first playback device and a second playback device, and wherein receiving the one or more audio settings associated with the one or more media items comprises: receiving the first audio setting to be applied during playback of the first media item by the first playback device; and receiving a second audio setting associated with the first media item to be applied during playback of the first media item by the second playback device. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method of claim 5, wherein the first audio setting is different from the second audio setting. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The method of claim 5, further comprising: transmitting, via the first playback device to the second playback device, the second audio setting and the first media item. ### Claim 8 (depends on 5) The method of claim 5, further comprising: generating, via the first playback device, a first modified audio data by modifying audio data of the first media item based on the first audio setting; generating, via the first playback device, a second modified audio data by modifying the audio data of the first media item based on the second audio setting; and transmitting, via the first playback device to the second playback device, the second modified audio data. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising: causing, via the first playback device, the second playback device to play the second modified audio data synchronously with playback by the first playback device of the first modified audio data. ### Claim 10 A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by a first playback device cause the first playback device to perform functions comprising: transmitting, over one or more networks to a first computing device, information indicating one or more characteristics of the first playback device; transmitting, over the one or more networks to the first computing device, queue information indicating one or more media items in a playback queue to be played by the first playback device, wherein the one or more media items are retrievable for playback by the first playback device from a second computing device that is physically different from the first computing device; receiving, over the one or more networks from the first computing device, one or more audio settings associated with the one or more media items, the one or more audio settings corresponding to the one or more media items and the one or more characteristics of the first playback device; and playing a first media item of the one or more media items according to a first audio setting of the one or more audio settings. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the functions further comprise: modifying, via the first playback device, audio data of the first media item based on the first audio setting, and wherein playing the first media item comprises: playing, via the first playback device, the modified audio data of the first media item. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein transmitting the queue information comprises: in response to determining that the first media item is to be played next, transmitting a request for audio settings for the first media item. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the functions further comprise: receiving an instruction to add the first media item to the playback queue; and in response to receiving the instruction, transmitting a request for audio settings for the first media item. ### Claim 14 (depends on 10) The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein a group comprises the first playback device and a second playback device, and wherein receiving the one or more audio settings associated with the one or more media items comprises: receiving the first audio setting to be applied during playback of the first media item by the first playback device; and receiving a second audio setting associated with the first media item to be applied during playback of the first media item by the second playback device. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the first audio setting is different from the second audio setting. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the functions further comprise: transmitting, to the second playback device, the second audio setting and the first media item. ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the functions further comprise: generating a first modified audio data by modifying audio data of the first media item based on the first audio setting; generating a second modified audio data by modifying the audio data of the first media item based on the second audio setting; and transmitting, to the second playback device, the second modified audio data. ### Claim 18 A first playback device, comprising: a processor; and memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the first playback device to perform functions comprising: transmitting, over one or more networks to a first computing device, information indicating one or more characteristics of the first playback device; transmitting, over the one or more networks to the first computing device, queue information indicating one or more media items in a playback queue to be played by the first playback device, wherein the one or more media items are retrievable for playback by the first playback device from a second computing device different from the first computing device; receiving, over the one or more networks from the first computing device, one or more audio settings associated with the one or more media items, the one or more audio settings corresponding to the one or more media items and the one or more characteristics of the first playback device; and playing a first media item of the one or more media items according to a first audio setting of the one or more audio settings. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The first playback device of claim 18, wherein the functions further comprise: receiving, via the first playback device, an instruction to add the first media item to the playback queue; and in response to receiving the instruction, transmitting a request for audio settings for the first media item. ### Claim 20 (depends on 18) The first playback device of claim 18, wherein a group comprises two or more playback devices comprising the first playback device and a second playback device, and wherein receiving the one or more audio settings associated with the one or more media items comprises: receiving the first audio setting to be applied during playback of the first media item by the first playback device; and receiving a second audio setting associated with the first media item to be applied during playback of the first media item by the second playback device.