Patent ID: 7720988

Claim:
A multimedia reproducing system comprising: a first client apparatus including an uploading unit operable to allow a user to transmit data from a desired medium of the user to a server apparatus, the server apparatus including a data registering unit operable to register data transmitted from the first client apparatus by the uploading unit to a user record area prepared in advance for individual users; a list presenting unit operable to present a list of music data on a vehicle onboard apparatus to the user that are available to be transmitted to the vehicle onboard apparatus based on data registered by the data registering unit, wherein the presented music data is music data uploaded in advance onto the server apparatus by the user; and a server data transmitting/receiving unit operable to transmit desired music data of the list of music data to the vehicle onboard apparatus of the user in response to a selection by the user at the vehicle onboard apparatus of the desired music data of the list of music data available to be transmitted to the vehicle onboard apparatus; wherein the vehicle onboard apparatus comprises a selecting unit operable to select the desired music data from the list presented by the list presenting unit, a reproducing unit operable to receive the data transmitted from the server data transmitting/receiving unit and reproduce the data through decoding that corresponds to a media type, and a function selecting unit operable to select an operation mode relating to a reproduction quality or equalization; wherein the list presenting unit is further operable to present on the vehicle onboard apparatus a list of music data available for purchase at the vehicle onboard apparatus and the server data transmitting/receiving unit is further operable to transmit to the vehicle onboard apparatus desired music data of the list of music data available for purchase in response to a selection and purchase by the user at the vehicle onboard apparatus of the desired music data of the list of music data available for purchase, wherein the user is charged for the desired music data of the list of music data available for purchase based on which mode is selected as a reproduction quality and whether an equalizer function or an interpolated data function are selected; and wherein the server apparatus includes an operation screen generating unit operable to generate an operation screen presented on the vehicle onboard apparatus based on the content of the function selected by the function selecting unit, and transmit the screen to the vehicle onboard apparatus.