Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Yoshihiro Kitano

Hiroshi Fujii

Masahiko Miyashita

Tatsuyuki Miyazawa

A Karaoke apparatus in which after one Karaoke play was finished, a show-up effect according to the next Karaoke playing music piece is obtained for a period of time until the start of the next Karaoke play. Control information of a plurality of music pieces is previously reproduced by the reproducing means from the recorded information on a recording medium and is stored in memory. When one of the plurality of music pieces is selected by an operation, the control information corresponding to the selected music piece is read out from the memory and is supplied to the external apparatus to thereby start the operation. After that, the recording medium is played with regard to the selected music piece, thereby starting the reproduction of the Karaoke playing sound. Before the next Karaoke playing sound is generated, the external apparatus starts the operation according to the next Karaoke playing sound, so that the image of the selected music piece to be subsequently played is expressed by the external apparatus.

Karaoke reproducing apparatus

A recording medium playing apparatus which is capable of shortening the time required for operating the installation of recording media, and also, of accommodating a plurality of recording media in an accommodating section freely. A plurality of recording media are accommodated in an accommodating section together with a correlative position information recording medium which is recorded relation information related to the recorded contents of each of the plurality of recording media, and correlative position information indicating correlative positions of the plurality of recording media at the time of the accommodated condition, and then, the correlative position information and the relation information reproduced by playing means from the correlative position information recording medium are interrelatedly hold in a memory with respect to a plurality of recording media.

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Yoshihiro Kitano