Patent ID: 7251204

Claim:
An optical disc reproducing apparatus comprising: a reproducing means which reproduces, from an optical disc, an audio signal and time information relating to a reproducing time for said audio signal, which are recorded on said optical disc; a beat detecting means which detects beats contained in a musical rhythm represented by said audio signal, from said audio signal reproduced by said reproducing means; a first storing means which stores said audio signal reproduced by said reproducing means; a second storing means which stores the time information reproduced by said reproducing means, with respect to each audio signal respectively corresponding to said beats being continuous, which are detected by said beat detecting means; a first operation means which receives a beat searching operation from a user; and a control means which, when said first operation means receives said beat searching operation from said user, searches for the time information of said beats being continuous stored in said second storing means, in order of time represented by the time information, or in reverse order thereof, and reads said audio signal stored in said first storing means based on the time information thus searched.