Patent ID: 8078654

Claim:
An information reproducing apparatus, comprising: a storage unit configured to store music data and at least one first string of characters corresponding to the music data, the first string of characters being a title, an artist name, or a genre; a reproducing unit configured to reproduce the music data from said storage unit; a communication unit configured to communicate with an image data storage unit, said image data storage unit storing a plurality of image data, each of the plurality of image data corresponding to at least one second string of characters, the second string of characters being a title, an artist name, or a genre; a controller configured to determine whether image data associated with the music data is stored in the storage unit and, when the image data associated with the music data is not stored in the storage unit, control acquisition of one image data from said image data storage unit via said communication unit, the one image data being acquired based on a comparison between the at least one first string of characters and the plurality of the at least one second string of characters; and a display unit configured to display the acquired image data when the reproducing unit is reproducing the music data.