Patent ID: 7308188

Claim:
An audio reproducing apparatus having an analog input terminal to which an analog audio signal outputted from an AV apparatus is inputted, and a digital input terminal to which a digital audio broadcasting signal outputted from the AV apparatus is inputted, comprising: an identification means for identifying a type of the digital audio broadcasting signal inputted into the digital input terminal, based on additional information of the digital audio signal, and a signal path switching means for switching an internal signal path to an analog path so as to reproduce and output the analog audio signal inputted from the analog input terminal, when a result of an identification in the identification means shows that the digital audio broadcasting signal inputted from the digital input terminal is a PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) silence signal, and the PCM silence signal is inputted for more than a predetermined period of time and otherwise keeping the internal signal path so as to reproduce and output the digital audio broadcasting signal inputted from the digital input terminal.