System and method for listening to audio content
View Patent ↗A method including selecting a presentation content group, displaying content identifiers corresponding to the presentation content group, selecting a content identifier, and instantly presenting a substantially live presentation content from a media provider corresponding to the selected content identifier to a user.
1. A method comprising:
receiving a selection of a presentation content group;
in response to receiving the selection of the presentation content group, causing content identifiers corresponding to media content providers to be displayed and automatically pre-buffering content from the media content providers; and
causing presentation of the pre-buffered content in response to selection of a displayed content identifier.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the presentation content groups are grouped by one or more of genre, geographical location, and user defined groupings.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein presentation content of the presentation content group comprises live audio or live video presentation content.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising refreshing the pre-buffered content at predetermined time intervals.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the media content providers comprise radio stations.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the radio stations comprise Internet radio stations.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein automatically pre-buffering the content from the media content providers comprises automatically pre-buffering a clip of the content currently being played by one or more of the Internet radio stations.
8. An apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory and a computer program configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to:
receive a selection of a presentation content group;
in response to receiving the selection of the presentation content group, cause content identifiers corresponding to media content providers to be displayed and automatically pre-buffer content from the media content providers having a corresponding content identifier; and
cause presentation of the pre-buffered content in response to selection of a displayed content identifier.
9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the presentation content groups are grouped by one or more of genre, geographical location, and user defined groupings.
10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein presentation content of the presentation content group comprises live audio or live video presentation content.
11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the memory and the computer program are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to refresh the pre-buffered content at predetermined time intervals.
12. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the apparatus comprises a mobile communication device.
13. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the media content providers comprise radio stations.
14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the radio stations comprise Internet radio stations.
15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the memory and the computer program are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to automatically pre-buffer the content from the media content providers by automatically pre-buffering a clip of the content currently being played by one or more of the Internet radio stations.
16. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium and computer readable program code embodied therein with the computer readable program code comprising program code configured to:
receive a selection of a presentation content group;
in response to receiving the selection of the presentation content group, cause content identifiers corresponding to media content providers to be displayed and automatically pre-buffer content from the media content providers having a corresponding content identifier; and
cause presentation of the pre-buffered content in response to selection of a displayed content identifier.
17. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein presentation content of the presentation content group comprises live audio or live video presentation content.
18. The computer program product of claim 16 , wherein the media content providers comprise radio stations.
19. The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein the radio stations comprise Internet radio stations.
20. The computer program product of claim 19 , wherein the program code configured to automatically pre-buffer the content from the media content providers comprises program code configured to automatically pre-buffer a clip of the content currently being played by one or more of the Internet radio stations.