Portable media player as a low power remote control and method thereof

[Subject] [Means for Solution] Radio access and control to a media server (104) which carries out streaming of the digital media to a media device (106) via a radio interface (116) are performed using a portable multimedia player (102). Media devices (106) are a stereo/speaker, for example, when carrying out streaming of the digital audio. Although a portable multimedia player is synchronized in one embodiment about a digital media file as which it was chosen of a plurality of digital media files (109) stored in a media server, In that case, only digital media file metadata (a music name, the author, etc.) related with a selected digital media file is transmitted from a media server, and is stored in a portable media player. [Chosen drawing] Drawing 1