the content selection the assigned rating may also or alternatively include a rating of a segment of the content selection that rating may be assigned by the user during previous playback of the content selection in step 130 the play list is modified based on the weighted content selection modification of the playlist may include deletion of content from the playlist modification of the playlist may also or alternatively include adding the content selection to a playlist in those instances where the weighted content was not previously a part of the playlist sequence modification may also or alternatively include changing the propensity for the content selection to be repeatedly selected from the playlist during playback for example the particular selection may occur more or less frequently during a playback operation the playlist is then executed in step 140 such that content selections are rendered as a part of a playback operation rendering of content may occur as a result of the playlist being processed and then the actual content being retrieved and executed from memory as a result of the information reflected in the playlist the playlist itself is not the content being executed the weighting and modification steps may occur as the result of instructions stored in memory of the consumer electronics device being executed by a processor the sequence of the content selections in the playlist may have originally been generated as the result of a randomization routine in other instances however the.