Patent ID: RE40836

Claim:
B A b roadcast apparatus for automatically providing text information identifying a recorded broadcast audio selection to a data receiver , comprising: compact disk player means for decoding and playing data recorded on a compact disk having an album recorded thereon in the form of multiple tracks each of which contains an audio selection, the data on the compact disk providing to the player means , in addition to the audio selection a digital code data which is unique to the audio selection selected for play ; track selection means for selecting a particular audio selection to be played; digital processor means coupled to the player means and responsive to the digital code data and the track selection means for processing digital data ; test text storage means coupled to the digital processor means and having stored therein text information identifying a plurality of audio selections and digital codes, the text information being indexed by the digital codes; means for automatically providing the digital code data from the player means to the processor means, whereby the processor means recalls from the storage means the text information corresponding to the provided digital code data and, in response to the track selection means and the text information, provides digital data representing the text information identifying the selected audio selection ; data transmitter means including communications channel means for communicating data between two points, for transmitting on the communications channel means the recalled text information at a time substantially concurrent with prior to the transmission of the each audio selection corresponding thereto; and data receiver means for receiving on the communications channel means the selected audio selection and the text information, for reproducing the selected audio selection using audio transducer means, and for displaying the corresponding text information on a display .