Speaker discovery and assignment

Abstract

Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for discovering and assigning wireless speakers to one or more devices capable of providing audio content. In some embodiments, the speakers may receive one or more channels of multi-channel audio content. In some embodiments, one or more wireless speakers are discovered, a prompt identifying at least one speaker location is provided at an output device, a list of wireless speakers is provided to the output device, wherein the list of wireless speakers corresponds to the discovered one or more wireless speakers, a selection of a wireless speaker from the list of wireless speakers is received; and the selected wireless speaker is associated to the at least one speaker location.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A device comprising:
 one or more processors; and   memory, wherein the memory contains one or more processor executable instructions that when executed, cause the one or more processors to:
 create a first speaker group; 
 discover one or more wireless speakers in communication with the device; 
 output to a display device, a prompt indicating at least one speaker location; 
 output to the display device, a list of wireless speakers, wherein the list of wireless speakers corresponds to the discovered one or more wireless speakers; 
 receive a selection of a wireless speaker from the list of wireless speakers, wherein the selected wireless speaker has been previously assigned to a second speaker group; 
 assign the selected wireless speaker to the first speaker group such that the selected wireless speaker is assigned to the first speaker group and the second speaker group at a same time, wherein the first speaker group includes a plurality of wireless speakers, and wherein the second speaker group includes a plurality of wireless speakers at least one of which is not included in the first speaker group; 
 associate the selected wireless speaker to the at least one speaker location; 
 receive audio content from an audio source; and 
 transmit the received audio content to the plurality of wireless speakers of the first speaker group over a wireless communication network.