Audio recording, reproducing, and transmitting apparatus; home theater systems comprising audio stereo speakers, audio and video receivers, and audio and video media players; stereo amplifiers; audio speaker base stations; headphones; earphones; microphones; audio speakers; audio, video and digital media receivers; audio and video transmitters; audio, video, and digital mixers; amplifiers; digital audio and video devices; MP3 and other digital format audio players; digital audio recorders and players; digital video recorders and players; radios; televisions; television monitors; television set top boxes; automobile stereo adapters; notebook computers; computers; computer hardware; computer peripheral devices; handheld computers; tablet computers; telephones; smart phones; mobile telephones; portable digital electronic media players; computer hardware for the reproduction, processing and streaming of audio, video and multimedia content; computer software for the reproduction, processing and streaming of audio, video and multimedia content; computer software running on computing devices, namely, desktop computers/mobile computers/tablet computers/smart phones and appliances with an embedded computer for transmitting audio to other computing devices for purposes of playing the audio; computer software running on computing devices, namely, desktop computers/mobile computers/tablet computers/smart phones and appliances with an embedded computer for transferring video to other computing devices for purposes of playing the video; computer software running on computing devices, namely, desktop computers/mobile computers/tablet computers/smart phones and appliances with an embedded computer for receiving audio from other computing devices for purposes of playing the audio; computer software running on computing devices namely desktop computers/mobile computers/tablet computers/smart phones and appliances with an embedded computer for receiving video from other computing devices for purposes of playing the video