Patent ID: 7277362

Claim:
An audio signal reproducing apparatus, comprising: scratching operation means; rotational speed detection means which detects at least a rotational speed of said scratching operation means and outputs said detected rotational speed as a rotational speed signal; and processing means for reproducing audio data, which have already been read from an audio signal recording medium and stored, in accordance with said rotational speed signal, wherein said scratching operation means comprises: first operation means; second operation means differing from said first operation means, wherein a rotational speed signal from said first operation means and a rotational speed signal from the second operation means which is achieved at the same detected rotational speed, differ from each other; and detection means for detecting which of the first and second operation means has been actuated, wherein said processing means reproduces said audio data, in accordance with said rotational speed signal output from said rotational speed detection means through use of a reference rotational speed signal assigned to one of the first and second operation means which is detected by said detection means from among a predetermined rotational speed signal of said first operation means and a predetermined rotational speed signal of said second operation means, both predetermined rotational speed signals having been achieved at a reference rotational speed.