Musical reproduction unit
First Claim
1. A method of controlling a musical reproduction unit for playing digitally encoded records, comprising assembling a plurality of digitally encoded records, photographically reducing covers of said records, loading said records in a musical reproduction unit arranged to play a selected one of said records in response to a choice made by a user, and mounting said photographically reduced covers on said unit in an array so that all covers for all records that are loaded in the unit are viewable at one time, whereby a user is enabled to choose a record by entering in said unit firstly an indication of a corresponding cover, and playing one of said records in response to a user selection made by touching a particular one of said covers.
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Abstract
A number of digitally encoded records (12) are loaded in a reproduction apparatus (13), such as a compact disc juke box. Covers (14) corresponding to the records (12) are photographically reduced in size. The photographically reduced covers are mounted on the reproduction apparatus so that the user can choose a particular record to be played by selecting the corresponding cover. In one example the covers (14) are arranged in a regular grid and the reproduction apparatus (13) is programmed with data correlating positions of covers in the grid with the corresponding records. The data may be provided in a programmable data cartridge (8). The grid (T) may have a touch-sensitive device (15,16) associated with it. Alternatively the user may use a numeric keypad to indicate the selected cover.
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- 1. A method of controlling a musical reproduction unit for playing digitally encoded records, comprising assembling a plurality of digitally encoded records, photographically reducing covers of said records, loading said records in a musical reproduction unit arranged to play a selected one of said records in response to a choice made by a user, and mounting said photographically reduced covers on said unit in an array so that all covers for all records that are loaded in the unit are viewable at one time, whereby a user is enabled to choose a record by entering in said unit firstly an indication of a corresponding cover, and playing one of said records in response to a user selection made by touching a particular one of said covers.
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6. A musical reproduction unit for playing digitally encoded records comprising a plurality of digitally encoded records loaded in the unit, the unit comprising:
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photographically reduced covers of the records mounted on the unit in an array so that all covers for all said records that are loaded in said unit are viewable at one time; a sensing means associated with at least one of said photographically reduced covers, said sensing means adapted to be activated by a user by touching a particular one of said covers and thereby selecting said particular cover; and control means electrically connected with said sensing means, said control means adapted to operably play the record indicated by the selected cover when selected by a user. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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