Patent ID: 8064307

Claim:
A reproducing device comprising: a first storage area, in which data is stored, said first storage area using a file system which is not supported by an operating system of the reproducing device; an interface part supporting both of the file system used by the first storage area and a file system supported by the operating system of the reproducing device, said interface part including a user interface part accessible from outside of the reproducing device, and an acquiring and reproducing interface part configured to accept only reproducing requests for reproducing the data stored in the first storage area, supplied through the user interface part, and for reading out and supplying the data stored in the first storage area, wherein the reading out and supplying operations are hidden from a user; and a reproducing part for reproducing the data supplied through the acquiring and reproducing interface part, said reproducing part using the file system supported by the operating system of the reproducing device.