Patent ID: 7649136

Claim:
A music reproducing system for reproducing a music program, comprising: a communication network; a music data distributor including a first data storage for storing said music program containing at least one musical content and at least one non-musical content, a data file containing pieces of audio data and pieces of a sort of time data expressing a time from a first viewpoint and another data file containing pieces of music data and pieces of another sort of time data expressing a time from a second view point different from said first viewpoint, a first communication module connected to said communication network for receiving requests and delivering said music program, said data file and said another data file to said communication network, and a first information processing apparatus connected to said first data storage and said first communication module and having an information processing capability so as to manage said first data storage, interpret said requests and transfer said music program, said data file and said another data file between said first data storage and said first communication module; and a program reproducer connected to said communication network, and including a first data-to-sound converter following said music program for reproducing said non-musical content from said pieces of audio data on a schedule defined by said pieces of said sort of time data, a second data-to-sound converter following said music program for reproducing said musical content on the basis of said pieces of music data on another schedule defined by said pieces of said another sort of time data, a second data storage storing said music program, said data file and said another data file, a second communication module connected to said communication network, a second information processing apparatus connected to said first data-to-sound converter, said second data-to-sound converter, said second data storage and said second communication module and having an information processing capability so as to manage said second data storage, transmit said requests, receive at least said music program, make said first data-to-sound reproducer and said second data-to-sound reproducer synchronized on the basis of said pieces of said sort of time data and said pieces of said another sort of time data and interpret said music program for selectively transferring said pieces of audio data and said pieces of music data to said first data-to-sound converter and said second data-to-sound converter.