Patent ID: 8275777

Claim:
A content reproduction system, comprising: a content-providing apparatus; and a content reproduction apparatus, wherein said content reproduction apparatus includes a first communication unit configured to transmit a request to said content-providing apparatus, said request including an apparatus identifier that identifies said content reproduction apparatus, said request also including an artist name, and a reproducing unit configured to reproduce a plurality of content data, and said content-providing apparatus includes a second communication unit configured to receive said request including said apparatus identifier and said artist name from said content reproduction apparatus, a memory configured to store the plurality of content data, and a controller configured to select the plurality of content data from said memory based on the apparatus identifier and said artist name included in said request to create a reproduction list defining an order of the plurality of content data, the second communication unit further configured to transmit a first one of the order of the plurality of content data to the content reproduction apparatus, the controller further configured to produce a result of a determination whether a second one of the order of the plurality of content data exists, after a process to provide the first one of the order of the plurality of content data has been started in response to said request, the second communication unit further configured to transmit, upon the determination determining that the second one of the order of the plurality of content data exists, an attribute of the second one of the order of the content data to the content reproduction apparatus, the attribute including an artist name of the second one of the order of the plurality of content data, the artist name of the second one of the order of the plurality of content data being different from the artist name included in said request.