Patent ID: 6954412

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus for reproducing audio signals from a recording medium on which sampled data generated by sampling audio signals from a sound source at a predetermined sampling frequency are recorded in a plurality of recording regions as said sampled data are separated into a plurality of partial portions including said audio signals in their entirety, said reproducing apparatus comprising: readout means for reading signals from said plurality of recording regions of said recording medium; and control means for controlling whether signals on each of said plurality of recording regions read by said readout means are to be reproduced individually or signals of a plurality of said regions are to be synthesized and reproduced, wherein when said recording medium is a disc shaped recording medium having two recording layers, said control means uses said readout means to reproduce a first layer, said control means in reproducing a second layer shifts to a point temporally previous to a replay end time point of said first layer to initiate reproduction, and said control means shifts after reproduction of said second layer to a point temporally posterior to said replay end time point to shift reproduction to said first layer.