Patent ID: 7698350

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus comprising: a user operable input for generating a first input signal and a second input signal; a storage medium storing content data; a grouping section configured to group the content data into content groups; a group selection section configured to select a first one of the content groups in response to the first input signal and to select a second one of the content groups in response to the second input signal upon an elapsed time since a reproduction start time reaching a time Tc; and a reproduction control section configured to: reproduce the first content group; maintain the elapsed time since the reproduction start time; maintain reproduction starting times indicating at what times since the reproduction start time individual pieces of content data of the second one of the content groups would start being reproduced; compare the time Tc to the reproduction starting times for the individual pieces of content data of the second selected content group; determine one of the individual pieces of content data of the second selected content group based on the comparison; and after the second content group is selected upon the elapsed time since the reproduction start time reaching the time Tc, reproduce the second selected content group starting at the determined content data.