Patent ID: 7257072

Claim:
A digital audio data reproducing system comprising: a digital audio data reproducing apparatus including a recording medium in which digital audio data are stored, detection means for detecting the digital audio data stored in said recording medium and a processing section for reproducing said digital audio data in accordance with a reproducing speed signal and a reproducing direction signal which are supplied from the outside to said detection means; an analog record player including a turntable for an analog record and rotation driving means for said turntable; and a rotation detecting apparatus mounted onto said analog record player for detecting both the speed of revolution and the direction of rotation for either said turntable or said analog record, which is rotated by said turntable, and for supplying said reproducing speed signal and said reproducing direction signal to said digital audio data reproducing apparatus, after determining said reproducing speed signal and said reproducing direction signal from the detection signals for the speed of revolution and the direction of rotation, wherein said rotation detection apparatus includes: a rotation body which is rotated by either said turntable or said analog record in contact therewith; and a rotary encoder including an encoder disk connected to a rotary shaft of said rotation body and a photoelectric detector for sensing said encoder disk, and wherein said rotation detecting apparatus further includes supporting means for changing said rotation body and said rotary encoder from a first position at which said rotation body and said rotary encoder is in contact with said analog record to a second position at which said rotation body and said rotary encoder is away from said analog record and vice versa by the operation of an operator.