MUSIC PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND MUSIC PLAYBACK METHOD
First Claim
1. A music playback apparatus playing back music, comprising:
- a music data storing unit to store a plurality of pieces of music-track data;
a metadata storing unit to store metadata corresponding to the respective pieces of music-track data;
a sound data conversion unit to convert the metadata and so on into sound data;
a playback unit to play back the music-track data and the sound data; and
a control unit to read out and input, to the sound data conversion unit, metadata corresponding to the music-track data to be played back from the metadata storing unit, and input sound data output from the sound data conversion unit into the playback unit to make the playback unit perform sound playback at a timing of either before playback, during playback or after playback of the music-track data.
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Abstract
A music playback apparatus playing back music, comprising: a music data storing unit storing a plurality of pieces of music-track data; a metadata storing unit storing metadata corresponding to the respective pieces of music-track data; a sound data conversion unit converting the metadata and so on into sound data; a playback unit playing back the music-track data and the sound data; and a control unit reading out and inputting, to the sound data conversion unit, metadata corresponding to the music-track data to be played back from the metadata storing unit, and inputting sound data output from the sound data conversion unit into the playback unit to make the playback unit perform sound playback at a timing of either before playback, during playback or after playback of the music-track data.
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17 Claims
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1. A music playback apparatus playing back music, comprising:
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a music data storing unit to store a plurality of pieces of music-track data; a metadata storing unit to store metadata corresponding to the respective pieces of music-track data; a sound data conversion unit to convert the metadata and so on into sound data; a playback unit to play back the music-track data and the sound data; and a control unit to read out and input, to the sound data conversion unit, metadata corresponding to the music-track data to be played back from the metadata storing unit, and input sound data output from the sound data conversion unit into the playback unit to make the playback unit perform sound playback at a timing of either before playback, during playback or after playback of the music-track data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 16)
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8. A method for playing back music in a music playback apparatus comprising a music data storage unit to store a plurality of pieces of music-track data and a metadata storage unit to store metadata corresponding to the respective pieces of music-track data, the method comprising:
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when playing back music-track data specified by a user, reading out metadata corresponding to the music-track data from the metadata storage unit; converting the metadata into sound data; and playing back the sound data at a timing of either before playback, during playback or after playback of the music-track data. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17)
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15. A recording medium recording a program for realizing a music playback apparatus by an information processing apparatus comprising a storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of music-track data and metadata corresponding to the respective pieces of music-track data and a processing unit, the program making the processing unit of the information processing apparatus execute:
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a step of reading out, when playing back music-track data specified by a user, metadata corresponding to the music-track data from the storage unit; a step of converting the read out metadata into sound data; and a step of playing back the sound data at a timing of either before playback, during playback, after playback of the music-track data.
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