Patent ID: 8612031
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: G10H,G11B

Abstract:
1. An audio player for playing back a music piece selected by a user and providing an acoustic output accordingly, comprising: a meta data acquisition unit operative, when the user provides input requesting to fast-forward the playback of the music piece, to acquire beat data indicating a timing of beats that serves as a basis for a rhythm of the music piece being played back; a playback controller operative to simultaneously extract a plurality of playback portions and non-playback portions of audio data from the music piece, wherein the music piece is defined by a plurality of intervals, each interval defined as a unit of time from each beat of the music piece, respectively, in a discrete point in time, and wherein each interval is made up of a playback portion, which contains the respective beat, and a non-playback portion, where the playback portion is less than the interval; and a playback unit operative to play back only the playback portions of each interval determined by the playback controller and to prevent the non-playback portions from being played back.