Social Media Queue

A method comprising:

• receiving by a first playback device via a network interface over a wide area network, an identifier of a media playback system that comprises at least one playback device;
• associating by the first playback device, the identifier of the media playback system with a first social-media account of a social-media network;
• receiving by the first playback device via the network interface over the wide area network from a second computing device affiliated with the first social media account, an indication of an upcoming social-media event corresponding to the first social-media account, wherein the indication of the upcoming social-media event comprises one or more second social-media accounts of the social-media network;
• based on the indication of the upcoming social-media event, generating by the first playback device, a social-media playback queue;
• establishing by the first playback device, access permissions to the social-media playback queue for the one or more second social-media accounts based on an indication that the one or more second social-media accounts received an invite to the upcoming social-media event;
• receiving by the first playback device, via the network interface over the wide area network from a third computing device affiliated with a given second social-media account of the one or more second social-media accounts, an indication of a given media item from a given source;
• based on receiving the indication of the given media item from the given source, causing by the first playback device, the media item from the given source to be added to the social-media playback queue;
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• during the social-media event, causing by the first playback device via the wide area network, the given media item to be streamed from the given source and played back via the at least one playback device of the media playback system.

Tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a playback device of a media playback system, cause the playback device to perform functions comprising:

• transmitting to a social-media computing system via a network interface over a wide area network, an identifier of the media playback system to cause the media playback system to be associated with a first social-media account of a social-media network;
• receiving from the social-media computing system via the network interface over the wide area network, an indication of a social-media playback queue corresponding to a second social-media account of the social-media network and an upcoming social-media event at a particular time;
• at the particular time of the social-media event, causing one or more particular media items of the social-media playback queue to be added to a playback queue of the media playback system;
• after adding the one or more particular media items of the social-media playback queue to the playback queue of the media playback system, receiving an input comprising (i) access permissions indicating that the second social media account is associated with an invite to the social-media event and (ii) a command to play the one or more particular media items;
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• responsive to receiving the input, playing the one or more particular media items in the playback queue of the media playback system.