Patent ID: 8543229

Claim:
A data reproducing apparatus including reproducing means for sequentially reading and reproducing a plurality of items of data from data storing means which stores the data, comprising: situation information obtaining means for selecting an item of situation information from a plurality of items of situation information, wherein each item of situation information indicates a situation during reproduction of the data based on a current environment information; reproduction history storing means for storing reproduction history containing identification information of data at least a part of which has been reproduced by the reproducing means, wherein the reproduction history contains an evaluation value for each item of the situation information in association with each item of the identification information; identification information reading means for reading the identification information of some or all of the data reproduced in a situation indicated by the selected situation information from the reproduction history storing means; reproduction characteristic information generating means for weighting and combining characteristic information of data identified by the identification information read by the identification information reading means so as to generate reproduction characteristic information based on the evaluation value for the selected item of the situation information associated with the identification information read from the identification information reading means; the characteristic information of the data which indicates musical characteristics of the data; and reproducing order setting means for setting a reproducing order of reading and reproducing the data from the data storing means by the reproducing means based on the reproduction characteristic information generated by the reproduction characteristic information generating means and characteristic information of some or all of the data stored in the data storing means.