Patent ID: 8321042
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An audio system connectable to a portable audio player that stores audio files or both audio files and playlists of the audio files as audio contents, and that plays back the stored audio contents, the audio system receiving menu information of audio contents in a connected portable audio player and comprising: an audio content narrowing unit configured to narrow the audio contents stored in a portable audio player connected to the audio system down to a processing target audio content in accordance with an attribute of the audio content selected by a user and based on menu information received by the audio system from the connected portable audio player; a preset information registering unit configured to register, in response to a user preset registration operation, the narrowing procedure performed by the audio content narrowing unit as preset information; and a preset playback controlling unit configured to perform, in response to a user preset playback operation, a narrowing procedure equivalent to the narrowing procedure that is registered as the preset information, and to cause the portable audio player connected to the audio system to play back the audio content narrowed down from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player.