Patent ID: 8724958

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus comprising: a storage device that stores one or more video data; a user interface that accepts a user selection for selecting video data of the one or more video data stored in the storage device; a receiving unit that receives music-reproduction data from an external server via a network, the received music-reproduction data comprising a combination of parts of music, each of the parts of the music having a respective priority number for playback, the parts of the music being automatically selected as a result of a comparison between a reproduction time length of the combination of the parts of the music of the music-reproduction data and a reproduction time length of the selected video data, and the automatically selected parts of the music being arranged in the music-reproduction data in a decreasing order of priority based on the priority number of each of the selected parts of the music; and a reproduction controller that simultaneously reproduces the music-reproduction data received from the external server and the user selected video data.