Abstract
Music streaming platforms do not typically provide the ability for users to resume listening to musical containers (albums, playlists, etc.) from the point where they last left off. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to resume listening to musical containers, thereby solving the problem of continuity for music. The techniques enable users to browse older queues not currently being listened to and to resume playback across devices on finite containers while respecting a shuffled order. Furthermore, the techniques provide a visual user interface (UI) to identify a finite container or queue as being in-progress; a visual UI on the details page of a container to identify the point in a finite container where playback resumes; and logic to determine when to present a resumption user interface and when to present a standard re-consumption user interface.
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Recommended Citation
Oberbeck, John; Bettes, Alan; and Hua, Chunya, "Seamless Playback Resumption for Musical Containers", Technical Disclosure Commons, (September 05, 2025)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/8560