Patent ID: 7590938

Claim:
A method of selecting and reproducing of a sound document within a collection of sound documents stored in a reproduction apparatus furnished with a display device, comprising: storing each sound document of the collection, analyzing the documents stored to determine audio parameters specific to each document, positioning graphics identifiers corresponding to part of the sound documents on a graphics page of the display device, a position of each graphics identifier being dependent on the parameters calculated previously for a given document, automatically selecting and reproducing successively the sound documents according to a strategy taking into account the position of the graphics identifiers of the documents in the graphics page and a geometric characteristic specific to the reproduction apparatus, a total duration of the reproductions being equal to a sum of the durations of the selected sound documents, wherein the selection comprises automatically selecting and reproducing the documents whose graphics identifiers are situated in proximity to a graphics symbol based on a mathematical formula having a starting point and a finishing point, a first document selected being situated on the starting point or being closest to the starting point.