Patent ID: 7385129

Claim:
A music reproducing system comprising: a storage that stores a first data sequence and a second data sequence that constitute musical piece data and have timings at which reproducing can be started from a middle of a data sequence; a first reproducing unit that reads the first data sequence and reproduces a first musical piece based on the first data sequence; a second reproducing unit that reads the second data sequence and reproduces a second musical piece based on the second data sequence; a reproducing timing designating unit that designates a reproducing timing at which the musical piece data is started to be reproduced; and a first timing specifying unit that specifies a first timing which is positioned in time prior to the reproducing timing and from which the first musical piece can be reproduced by the first reproducing unit in case that, at the designated reproducing timing, the second musical piece can be started to be reproduced by the second reproducing unit and the first musical piece cannot be started to be reproduced by the first reproducing unit, wherein the second reproducing unit starts reproducing the second musical piece from the designated reproducing timing, and wherein the first reproducing unit starts reproducing the first musical piece from the specified first timing and mute-reproduces the first musical piece until a time progress comes up to the designated reproducing timing.