Method, device, and system for directing a wireless speaker from a mobile phone to receive and render a playlist from a content server on the internet

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices are presented for facilitating a presentation of media, including displaying, on a touchscreen of a mobile phone, a plurality of device identifiers; receiving input identifying one of the plurality of device identifiers that identifies a rendering device; providing information identifying a user of the mobile phone; receiving a message based on the information identifying the user of the mobile phone, the message comprising information identifying a playlist comprising a plurality of media item identifiers corresponding to media items ordered to be played in an arranged sequence; receiving, at the mobile phone, input identifying at least one media item identifier from the playlist; and directing, from the mobile phone, the rendering device to obtain a media item identified by the at least one media item identifier from a content server and to play the media item, the media item obtained without user input at the rendering device.