Patent ID: 7576279

Claim:
A musical content utilizing apparatus having a display unit, said musical content utilizing apparatus comprising: an input portion inputting musical content data including different kinds of content material data about music and content definition data including a material displaying instruction for displaying on said display unit content materials represented by said different kinds of content material data and reproduction control plug-in designation data; a display control portion displaying concurrently different kinds of content materials represented by said input different kinds of content material data on said display unit on the basis of said material displaying instruction included in the content definition data while displaying on the display unit a reproduction controlling tool for controlling the reproduction of said content materials; and an active material designation portion designating, from among said different kinds of content materials displayed on said display unit, a content material whose reproduction is to be controlled by said reproduction controlling tool, wherein the active material designation portion designates, based on the reproduction control plug-in designation data, from among the content materials displayed on the display unit a content material to which the reproduction controlling tool is displayed in corresponding relation.