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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas Alsina, Mountain View, CA (US);
Edward T. Schmidt, Burlingame, CA (US);
Taylor G Carrigan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher J. Sanders, San Jose, CA (US);
Cody D. Jorgensen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Arvind S. Shenoy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Amandeep S Jawa, Cupertino, CA (US);
George D. Bottas, Cupertino, CA (US);
Matthew J. Cielak, Cupertino, CA (US);
Paul C. Irvine, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations, a computing device can be configured to manage playlist-only media items for a user's media library. For example, when a user adds a media item to a playlist, the user can be presented with an option to add the media item to the playlist as a playlist-only media item. When the user selects to add the media item to the playlist as a playlist-only media item, the computing device can update media metadata associated with the user's media library with data indicating that the media item is a playlist-only media item. When the computing device performs operations (e.g., displaying, searching, etc.) on the user's media library, the computing device can exclude the playlist-only media items from the operations. The computing device can change the playlist-only settings for a media item to add and/or remove a media item from the user's media library.