Patent ID: 7756466

Claim:
An audio control apparatus connected with a reception apparatus for receiving an airwave containing music information as an audio signal of music and identification information about the music and for restoring music information and identification information from the received signal, the audio control apparatus acquiring, when supplied with a recording instruction from outside, music information on a tune basis specified by the identification information from the reception apparatus to thereby record the acquired music information on a recording medium, the audio control apparatus comprising: an interrupt listing unit that (i) acquires, from the reception apparatus, identification information corresponding to the music information to be recorded by the audio control apparatus on a recording medium, (ii) determines whether or not one tune of the music information is recorded on the recording medium, and, (iii) when one tune of the music information is not recorded and recording is interrupted, stores the acquired identification information as interrupt identification information about incompletely recorded music in an interrupt list storage unit; a determination unit that sequentially acquires identification information about music currently received from the reception apparatus and determines a match whether the acquired identification information matches the interrupt identification information stored in the interrupt list storage unit; and a first re-recording unit that, when the determination unit determines the match, acquires music information from the reception apparatus and records it on the recording medium and, when it is determined thereafter that one tune of the music information is recorded on the recording medium, deletes the interrupt identification information about recorded music from the interrupt list storage unit.