Patent ID: 7268288

Claim:
A music selection apparatus for selecting a piece of music to be reproduced and providing the piece of music to a user, the music selection apparatus comprising: a music data storage unit operable to store data corresponding to a plurality of pieces of music; an impression amount storage unit operable to store an impression amount for each of the plurality of pieces of music, the impression amount being obtained by quantifying a listener's impression of each of the plurality of pieces of music; a music selection priority level storage unit operable to store a music selection priority level for each of the plurality of pieces of music, the music selection priority level indicating at least one of a reproduction history and a preference level of each of the plurality of pieces of music; and a music selection processing unit operable to perform a music selection process of selecting one of the plurality of pieces of music to be reproduced from the plurality of pieces of music using a distance between each of the plurality of pieces of music in an impression space and the music selection priority level, the impression space having coordinate axes composed of components of the impression amount.