Patent ID: 7203012

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproducing device that reproduces a plurality of image signals and a plurality of audio signal sequences corresponding to a plurality of scenes from a recording medium, the plurality of audio signal sequences including a plurality of audio signals encoded according to normalization information for controlling amplitude of each of the plurality of audio signals and the normalization information that has been used for encoding the plurality of audio signals, from a recording medium; a decoding device that decodes the audio signals of the audio signal sequence reproduced by said reproducing device; and a control device responsive to switching to a play list reproduction mode in which the plurality of image signals and the plurality of audio signals are selectively reproduced through switching of the plurality of image signals and the plurality of audio signals of the plurality of scenes according to play list data indicative of a reproduction procedure of the image signals and the audio signals recorded on the recording medium, for controlling said decoding device to decode one of the plurality of audio signals that is to be reproduced immediately after the switching of the scenes according to the normalization information included in one of audio signal sequences that is reproduced immediately before the switching of the scenes.