Patent ID: 8766078

Claim:
A music piece order determination device comprising: a beat information corrector configured to acquire beat position information which includes at least information on a time of reproducing a beat when a musical composition is reproduced, to acquire a tempo value which is indicative of the number of beats per unit time in a musical composition, and to correct, in the case where the tempo value is different from a reference value, the beat position information of the musical composition such that the tempo value of the musical composition becomes the same value as the reference value; a correlation value calculator configured to calculate a correlation value indicative of a degree of correlation of beat position information between respective musical compositions among a plurality of musical compositions, based on the beat position information having the tempo value which has been corrected to the same value as the reference value; and a music piece order determiner configured to determine a music piece order, which is a reproduction order of musical compositions, based on the correlation value between the respective musical compositions.