Patent ID: 7430564

Claim:
A performance information reproducing apparatus comprising: a file storage device that stores a musical tone data file, in which musical tone information is recorded, and a plurality of media data files, in which a plurality of types of media information is recorded, together with a management file in which a plurality of reading manners of the musical tone data file and the media data files are recorded; a reading manner specifying device that specifies a reading manner of the plurality of reading manners instructed by a user operation from the management file stored by the file storage device; a reproduction data generating device that generates, based on said reading manner specified by said reading manner specifying device, reproduction data that designates the musical tone information of the musical tone data file to be reproduced and the media data file to be reproduced, using designation information in a same format as the musical tone information; a reproduction data storage device that stores the generated reproduction data; a reading device that reads the reproduction data stored by said reproduction data storage device in accordance with a reproduction clock for the musical tone information; and a reproducing device that reads the media data file designated by the read reproduction data, and reproduces the musical tone information in the reproduction data and the media information in the media file in synchronism with each other.