In accordance with an embodiment, a method of managing an automotive infotainment media library, in which media content files sourced from a set of source devices, and the media content files are accessible via respective playback paths by at least one media player application having a plurality of configurations, includes: parsing the media content files in the media library to create at least one indexed table including a respective list of identifiers associated to media content files, wherein the media content files are parsed as a function of at least one of a source device in the set of source devices, as a function of a configuration in the plurality of configurations of the at least one media player application, or as a function of folders grouping the media content files in the media library.

The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, medium and electronic device for configuring a gift list in a live broadcast room, comprising: receiving a gift list request sent by a client terminal, the gift list request including a room number of a live broadcast room where a user logging into the client terminal is located; determining a region where a host in the live broadcast room is located when broadcasting according to the room number of the live broadcast room; determining targeting gift list information corresponding to the region; and sending the targeting gift list information to the client terminal in response to the gift list request.

Techniques are disclosed for organizing and distributing artifacts generated by processing pipelines for the training or application of machine learning models. An application may subscribe to a playlist of a stream of events and locally store a copy of the playlist. The subscriber may merge locally stored and/or selected events to generate a merged stream of events. The subscriber may then execute the merged event stream including the newly added instance of the event.

A cloud-based computing system is configured to (i) maintain a scheduled playlist of media items, a current playback position within the scheduled playlist, and a priority media item for playback, (ii) receive, from a first playback device associated with a user account, a first request to play back the scheduled playlist, (iii) transmit the priority media item to the first playback device for playback before any media item from the scheduled playlist, (iv) receive, from a second playback device associated with the user account, a second request to play back the scheduled playlist, (v) determine that the priority media item should not be transmitted to the second playback device, and (vi) after determining that the priority media item should not be transmitted to the second playback device, transmit one or more media items from the scheduled playlist to the second playback device based on the current playback position within the scheduled playlist.

A system for distributing media includes a wide area network (WAN), a media player coupled to the WAN at a first home, and a media server coupled to the WAN at a second home for providing media. A service is coupled to the WAN for receiving a request for media from the media player and for establishing a connection between the first and second homes over the WAN. Media is streamed across the WAN from the second home to the first home. The system may include a storage device coupled to the media player where media is transferred across the WAN for storage at the storage device. A media device may be coupled to the media player for playing the streamed/transferred media where the media player and the media device may comprise a television, stereo, or computer and the media item may comprise video, photographs, or audio.

Example techniques relate to playback queue subscriptions. An example implementation involves a computing system receiving, from a first computing device associated with a first user account, an instruction to enable subscription to a first playback queue associated with a first media playback system. In response to the instruction, the computing system enables second user accounts to subscribe to the first playback queue. The second user accounts are registered with respective second media playback systems in respective second household. The computing system receives, from a particular second media playback system, a request to subscribe to the first playback queue; and in response, sends one or more messages that update a control interface of the first control device to display a subscriber indication and (ii) sends one or more messages that populate a second playback queue of the particular second media playback system with audio tracks of the first playback queue.

A reproduction apparatus includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: obtains a first segment including first subpictures corresponding to points of time and a second segment including second subpictures corresponding to the points of time; combines the first subpictures and the second subpictures to generate access units corresponding to the points of time; and reproduces the access units generated.

Various embodiments also include a computer-implemented method comprising determining a communications mode for a plurality of consoles operating within a vehicle, based on the determined communications mode, initiating an in-vehicle communication between a set of consoles included in the plurality of consoles, where the set of consoles includes at least a first console and a second console, in response to the in-vehicle communication, causing each of the set of consoles to attenuate volumes of a set of content items playing on each of the set of consoles, and receiving a speech signal generated by a first user of the set of consoles, and causing the set of consoles to reproduce the speech signal.

A method and apparatus for performing an integrated search is provided. An interface is provided that allows users to search and select any data related to a searchable term. Searchable terms may comprise titles of content, actors, and tags. Upon receiving results from the initial search, the user progresses through the initial search by selecting a result from the initial search and conducting a further search of that selection. The search may progress through many layers of searching in order to find information useful to the user and the user may perform actions based upon results of the search. The search implements a display with two columns, the first column displaying selectable data, and the second column displaying results to the selected data. The search is further customizable based upon a privacy level selected by the user.

Power aware adaptation for a power aware video streaming system may be based on the complexity information conveyed in different ways. A complexity level of a data stream, such as a video data stream, may be selected as a function of a remaining battery power of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and on a state set of a plurality of state sets that may be stored and/or managed by the WTRU. These state sets may correspond to, for example, different content sources and/or different complexity estimation algorithms and may be used to select the complexity level of the data stream. The data stream may then be received at the selected complexity level. The complexity level and/or a bitrate of the data stream may be adapted to accommodate, for example, the remaining battery power and/or other circumstances. The adaptation may be customized according to the objectives of use cases.