Patent ID: 7382967

Claim:
A video disk player for playing back a disk containing a plurality of music pieces, each recorded as a combination of video data and corresponding audio data, comprising: a video-data output section for sequentially playing back video data of a plurality of music pieces recorded in the disk, each for the same predetermined time interval, upon receipt of at least one search signal entered by an operator for searching the music pieces recorded in the disk; and an audio-data output section for continuously playing audio data of at least one music piece identified from music pieces recorded in the disk and different from at least some of the music pieces whose video data is played back, upon receipt of the search signal, wherein the played audio data is played back during the playback of video data of at least one music piece for which the played audio data is not recorded on the disk as corresponding audio data, and the played audio data is not as frequently changed over as the played video data during a search operation.