Recording and playback apparatus, music-data recording and playback method, and music-data recording and playback program

A recording and playback apparatus comprising:

• a duplicating section for duplicating music data from a recording medium in a predetermined read-out section onto a predetermined storage section;
• a playback section for playing back music data recorded on the recording medium;
• and
• a preserving section which, when playback by the playback section is interrupted as a result of a source being switched, preserves playback-interrupt-point information identifying a point at which the playback is interrupted,
• wherein the duplicating section continues duplication onto the storage section even though playback is interrupted as a result of the source being switched, and
• when an instruction is given that music data on the recording medium in the read-out section should be played back as a result of a source being switched, the playback section resumes playback of music data on the recording medium based on the playback-interrupt-point information preserved in the preserving section.

A music-data recording and playback method comprising:

• a duplicating act of duplicating music data from a recording medium in a predetermined read-out section onto a predetermined storage section;
• a preserving act of enabling a preserving section to preserve identification information identifying the recording medium and duplicated-music-data information identifying duplicated music data such that the identification information is associated with the duplicated-music-data information, when duplication in the duplicating act is interrupted;
• and
• a playback act of playing back music data stored in the storage section,
• wherein, in the duplicating act, when a recording medium having a history of interrupted duplication is placed in the read-out section, duplication onto the storage section is resumed based on the identification information and the duplicated-music-data information preserved in the preserving section.

A music-data recording and playback method comprising:

• a duplicating act of duplicating music data from a recording medium in a predetermined read-out section onto a predetermined storage section;
• a playback act of playing back music data recorded on the recording medium;
• and
• a preserving act of enabling a preserving section to preserve playback-interrupt-point information identifying a point at which playback is interrupted, when playback in the playback act is interrupted as a result of a source being switched,
• wherein, in the duplicating act, duplication onto the storage section is continued even though playback is interrupted as a result of the source being switched, and
• when an instruction is given that music data on the recording medium in the read-out section should be played back as a result of a source being switched, playback of music data on the recording medium is resumed in the playback act based on the playback-interrupt-point information preserved in the preserving section.

A music-data recording and playback program comprising:

• duplicating means for duplicating music data from a recording medium in a predetermined read-out section onto a predetermined storage section;
• means for enabling a preserving section to preserve identification information identifying the recording medium and duplicated-music-data information identifying duplicated music data such that the identification information is associated with the duplicated-music-data information, when duplication by the duplicating means is interrupted;
• playback means for playing back music data stored in the storage section;
• and
• duplication-resuming means for resuming duplication onto the storage section based on the identification information and the duplicated-music-data information preserved in the preserving section, when a recording medium having a history of interrupted duplication is placed in the read-out section.