Patent ID: 8136041

Claim:
A method of playing at least one musical composition in an audible and visual manner comprising the steps of: generating an audible representation of said at least one musical composition via a system, said system including: a phonograph; at least one record played via said phonograph, said playing creating audio; at least one video device for recording video, said at least one video device positioned to capture or record a plurality of images of at least a portion of said phonograph in said video; an audio/visual converter directly or indirectly coupled to said phonograph and said at least one video device, said audio/visual converter receiving said audio from said phonograph, and said audio/visual converter receiving said video from said at least one video device; a signal distributor coupled directly or indirectly to said audio/visual converter, said signal distributor receiving said audio and said video from said audio/visual converter; and at least one end device coupled directly or indirectly to said signal distributor, said at least one end device receiving said audio and said video from said signal distributor, said at least one end device displaying said audible representation; and generating a visual representation of said at least one musical composition via said at least one end device, said visual representation including at least one image of a record being played via a phonograph; wherein said visual representation includes musical composition information, said musical composition information including at least one of the group consisting of title, artist, recording label, publisher, year, record label information, sleeve information, and combinations thereof; and wherein a first timing of said visual representation substantially matches a second timing of said audible representation.