Patent ID: 8249427

Claim:
A content playing device comprising: identifying means configured to identify, with regard to subsidiary contents created by editing processing secondarily using at least one content as editing material and having, as information for reproducing content of the subsidiary contents, playback control information formed of content instructing playback of actual content data of source editing material contents which are primary contents serving as source editing material, lacking primary contents, which are said source editing material contents that are not included in held primary contents deemed to be held by a user; sample content obtaining means configured to externally obtain sample contents corresponding to said lacking primary contents; and playback processing means configured to execute, at a time of playing said subsidiary contents following said playback control information, playback signal processing for actual content data of held source editing material contents currently existing as said held primary contents, for held source editing material contents which are said source editing material contents included in said held primary contents, and playback signal processing for actual content data of the sample contents regarding said lacking primary contents.