Patent ID: 8086613

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus comprising: a central processing unit (CPU); a content storage block configured to store content and attribute information thereof in correspondence with one another in a computer readable storage medium; an input block configured to receive a content switching command that switches the content and corresponds to a particular attribute; a reproducing block configured to reproduce content; and a control block executed by the CPU and configured to, upon receiving the content switching command from the input block during reproduction of the first piece of content by said reproducing block, control said reproducing block to switch from a first piece of content to a second piece of content that shares the particular attribute with said first piece of content, said second piece of content being selected on the basis of attribute information of said first piece of content; and wherein when the reproducing block switches from the first piece of content to the second piece of content that shares the particular attribute with said first piece of content, the second piece of content is reproduced starting at a feature position of the second piece of content instead of at a beginning of the second piece of content.