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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1991
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A CD-ROMXA disk stores digital audio information including a plurality of music piece information, a digital contents information table including word-of-song information which represents the words of the music piece information and word-of-song address information for specifying the time-base position of the word-of-song information, and music address information for specifying the time-base position of the music information, the music address information corresponding to the word-of-song address information. The CD-ROMXA disk is typically loaded in a musical accompaniment playback apparatus, or 'karaoke' playback apparatus. When the disk is played back, the recorded digital audio information is reproduced to play back a desired musical accompaniment. A word-of-song start address position in the word-of-song address information is specified for thereby starting reproducing the music piece information from a music start address position which corresponds to the word-of-song start address position. A word-of-song end address position in the word-of-song address information is specified for thereby stopping reproducing the music piece information at a music end address position in the word-of-song address information which corresponds to the word-of-song end address position.