Multimedia servers that broadcast packet-switched audio with second screen content

An apparatus configured to provide an audio component of a multimedia channel to a wireless computing device wherein the multimedia channel comprises a visual component that is playing on at least one video monitor, the apparatus comprising:

• a network interface configured to communicate on a wireless network;
• and
• at least one processor configured to:
• extract the audio component;
• packetize the audio component into one or more data packets;
• transmit the packets via the network interface such that the wireless computing device may receive the packets and play the audio component in synchronization with the visual component playing on the at least one video monitor while the visual component is not playing on the wireless computing device;
• and send, to the wireless computing device via the wireless network contemporaneously with the transmitting of the packets, a visual content but not the visual component, wherein the visual content does not allow a user of the wireless computing device to cause a different audio portion to be extracted, packetized, and transmitted via the wireless network.

A system for providing an audio component of a multimedia channel to a wireless computing device wherein the multimedia channel comprises a visual component that is playing on at least one video monitor, the system comprising:

• the audio component;
• a network interface configured to communicate on a wireless network;
• and
• at least one processor configured to:
• extract the audio component;
• packetize the audio component into one or more data packets;
• transmit the packets via the network interface such that the wireless computing device may receive the packets and play the audio component in synchronization with the visual component playing on the at least one video monitor while the visual component is not playing on the wireless computing device;
• and send, to the wireless computing device via the wireless network contemporaneously with the transmitting of the packets, a visual content but not the visual component, wherein the visual content does not allow a user of the wireless computing device to cause a different audio portion to be extracted, packetized, and transmitted via the wireless network.