Media control method and system

A system for providing media content to a target media device, the system including:

• one or more content processors for obtaining ambient attribute information for at least one ambient attribute at a location of the target media device;
• and
• at least one source of selectable media content items;
• and
• wherein the one or more content processors are further operable to select a media content item from the at least one source of selectable media content items according to a correlation between the obtained ambient attribute information for the at least one ambient attribute and a set of ambient attribute selection conditions associated with each of the selectable media content items, and to communicate the selected media content item to the target media device.

A media controller for communicating media content to each of a plurality of media devices in networked communication with the media controller, the media controller including:

• one or more content processors for:
• for a selection of the plurality of media devices, obtaining ambient attribute information for at least one ambient attribute at the location of each of the selected media devices;
• indexing at least one source of selectable media content items to select, for each of the plurality of selected media devices, one or more media content items according to a correlation between the respective obtained ambient attribute information for the at least one ambient attribute and a set of ambient attribute selection conditions associated with each of the selectable media content items;
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• communicating the respective selected media content item to the selected ones of the plurality of media devices.

A media controller for communicating media content items to each of a plurality of media devices in networked communication with the media controller, the media controller including:

• one or more content processors for:
• receiving a set of ambient attribute conditions for a plurality of ambient attributes;
• indexing at least one source of selectable media content items to select a media content item according to the received set of ambient attribute selection conditions;
• processing local ambient attribute information for each of the plurality of media output devices to identify one or more of the media devices having local ambient attributes having a correlation with the received set of ambient attribute selection conditions;
• and
• communicating the respective selected media content item to each of the identified media device.

A device for providing media content to a target media device, the device including:

• a memory configured to store a set of media content items;
• one or more processors configured to:
• obtain ambient attribute information for at least one ambient attribute at the location of the target media device;
• select a media content item from the set of media content items according to a correlation between the obtained ambient attribute information for the at least one ambient attribute and a set of ambient attribute selection conditions associated with the media content item;
• and
• provide the selected media content item to the target media device for output and/or storage.