Patent ID: 8331579

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus comprising: a case; a headphone configured to protrude on one surface of the case and be inserted into an ear hole; an operating unit provided on a further surface orthogonal to the one surface of the case and near a base of the headphone, the operating unit being configured to receive press-down operation and rotational operation; a reproducing unit configured to reproduce audio data; and a controller incorporated in the case and configured to cause the reproducing unit to reproduce audio data stored in a storage medium based on an operation input received by the operating unit, wherein, the controller causes the reproducing unit to switch between a normal reproduction mode in which all of a plurality of audio data are reproduced in turn and a characteristic part reproduction mode in which only characteristic parts of the plurality of audio data are reproduced in turn, based on the operation received by the operating unit, the characteristic part is a hook-line part, the hook-line part being a part of the audio data corresponding to a specific frequency band of the audio data, the characteristic part reproduction mode is a hook-line reproduction mode in which only hook-line parts of the audio data are reproduced in turn, the controller switches a reproduction mode from the normal reproduction mode to the hook-line reproduction mode when long-press operation of pressing the operating unit for a long time is received in the normal reproduction mode, and the controller switches the reproduction mode from the hook-line reproduction mode to the normal reproduction mode when short-press operation of pressing the operating unit for a short time is received in the hook-line reproduction mode, and in switching from the normal reproduction mode to the hook-line reproduction mode, the controller changes a hook-line part reproducing time in the hook-line reproduction mode based on a time period of long-press operation of the operating unit.