Patent ID: 7496562

Claim:
A music data selection apparatus comprising: at least one of a storage device which has a plurality of pieces of music data stored thereon and a reading device which reads the music data from a storage medium which has a plurality of pieces of music data recorded thereon; a setting device which sets a search key as a standard of selection of the music data to be reproduced in the case of selecting the music data to be reproduced from the stored plurality of pieces of music data; a detection device which detects at least an appearance frequency of an image word included in the music data and configures only a part of the music data by each piece of the stored music data by performing a morphological analysis of the music data based on lyrics data using a thesaurus analysis of the lyrics data to extract the image word and outputting an extracted image word list; an appearance frequency calculation device which calculates an overall appearance frequency of the detected image word in the stored plurality of pieces of music data based on the appearance frequency of the image word included in the detected music data, and corrects the appearance frequency of the image word included in the music data based on the calculated overall appearance frequency of the image word; and a selection device which selects the music data matching with the set search key from the stored music data based on the set search key and the calculated appearance frequency of the image word in the music data.