Patent ID: 8214502

Claim:
A communication path setup computer for a music system including a plurality of pieces of music equipment connected to each other via communication lines, the communication path setup computer comprising: a first storage device that stores connection information on the plurality of pieces of music equipment; a display device that displays connection paths of the plurality of music equipment based on the connection information stored in the first storage unit; a second storage device that stores a plurality of setup data files, each of the setup data files comprising connection information of the plurality of pieces of music equipment; a selecting device that selects one of the plurality of setup data files; a first overwriting device that writes the connection information of the music equipment in the selected setup data file over the connection information of a matching music equipment stored in the first storage device; a first extracting device that identifies, from the selected setup data file, additional music equipment not matching any music equipment in the first storage device and extracts connection information of the additional music equipment; a second extracting device that identifies, from the first storage device, taking-over music equipment not matching any music equipment in the selected setup data file and extracts connection information of the taking-over music equipment; and a second overwriting device that writes the connection information of the additional music equipment extracted by said first extracting device over the connection information of the taking-over music equipment extracted by said second extracting device, wherein, the second overwriting device does not write the connection information of the additional music equipment over any connection information in the first storage device if the second extracting device fails to identify any taking-over music equipment.