Patent ID: 7307935

Claim:
A recording and playback apparatus comprising: a duplicating section for duplicating music data from a recording medium in a predetermined read-out section onto a predetermined storage section; a preserving section which, if duplication by the duplicating section is interrupted, preserves identification information identifying the recording medium and duplicated-music-data information identifying duplicated music data such that the identification information is associated with the duplicated-music-data information; and a playback section for playing back music data stored in the storage section, wherein, when a recording medium having a history of interrupted duplication is placed in the read-out section, the duplicating section resumes duplication onto the storage section based on the identification information and the duplicated-music-data information preserved in the preserving section; and wherein the playback section resumes playback of music data from interrupted music if the duplicating section has resumed duplication within a predetermined period of time, or from the first piece of music if the duplicating section has resumed duplication after a predetermined period of time or if the recording medium in the read-out section has been ejected and has been placed again in the read-out section.