Patent ID: 6934106
Filing Date: 2005-08-23
Classification: G11B,H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A music storage apparatus comprising: an audio signal source for supplying audio signals; an audio-signal recording unit for recording the audio signals supplied from said audio signal source; an audio-signal switching unit for providing one of the audio signals supplied from said audio signal source and the audio signals recorded in said audio-signal recording unit; and a control unit for controlling said audio-signal recording unit and said audio-signal switching unit in response to an operation by a user, wherein said control unit starts recording audio signals of a musical piece in said audio-signal recording unit in synchronization with the start of playing of the musical piece, leaves audio signals of an unoperated musical piece in said audio-signal recording unit, and deletes audio signals of an operated musical piece from said audio-signal recording unit, the unoperated musical piece not being subjected to a specific operation during the playing thereof, and the operated musical piece being subjected to the specific operation during the playing thereof.