Patent ID: 7324739

Claim:
A data reproduction method for reproducing audio data from a recording medium in which said audio data is recorded every first period of time by a length of said first period of time, said audio data having a specific sampling frequency, said method comprising the steps of: when said audio data of the first period of time recorded every said first period of time is reproduced every said first period of time, outputting said audio data reproduced every said first period of time with the number of items of sampled audio data being kept unchanged; and when said audio data of the first period of time recorded every said first period of time is reproduced every second period of time, said second period of time being different from said first period of time, outputting said audio data with the number of items of sampled audio data being converted into the number corresponding to said second period of time, said sampled audio data being reproduced every said second period of time.