A wireless communication system and in particular to a wireless
communication system for digital audio players that provides for
increased functionality, such as communication, interaction and
synchronization between a computing platform and various mobile, portable
or fixed digital audio players, as well as providing a communication link
between the various digital audio players themselves. The computing
platform may act, for example, through a wireless network or wireless
communication platform, to control the digital audio players; to act as a
cache of digital audio data for the digital audio players; as well as
provide a gateway to the Internet to enable the digital audio players to
access additional digital audio content and other information. The
computing platform may also be used to automatically update digital audio
content on the digital audio players; synchronize digital audio content
and playlists between digital audio players; and automatically continue a
particular playlist as the user moves from one digital audio player to
another.