Patent ID: 7092618

Claim:
An audio information reproducing apparatus for reproducing audio information recorded on an information recording medium, the audio information reproducing apparatus being capable of being connected with a bus, the information recording medium wherein reproducing control information for controlling a reproducing mode of the audio information and the audio information are recorded, the reproducing control information having an amount of information larger than that capable of being inserted into one information unit formed during transmission via the bus, the audio information reproducing apparatus comprising: a detecting device for detecting the audio information and the reproducing control information from the information recording medium; and a dividing device for dividing the detected reproducing control information into a plurality of portions so that each of said portions has an amount of information capable of being inserted into one information unit; an outputting device for forming transmission information including a plurality of the information units and for outputting the formed transmission information to the buss, wherein the plurality of the information units includes: at least one information unit including the detected audio information; and at least one other information unit including one of said portions, wherein the output device outputs the formed transmission information two or more times so that all of said portions are transmitted.