JPH0736470A - Karaoke reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the cost of the device by starting playing selected music after control set information on the selected music is read out of a recording medium and an external equipment is placed in a set state corresponding to the control set information. CONSTITUTION:A user inputs a music selection number by operating numeric keys or alphabet keys of an operation part 15 or remote control transmitter 23. A system controller 7 reads background video information and DSP mode information corresponding to the music number out of a RAM 13, and supplies the background video information to a background video device 26 and the DSP mode information to a sound processor 27. External equipments 25-27 become ready to operate corresponding to real-time data, so the system controller 7 commands a disk musical performance from the track of the music number. Namely, when one piece of music is selected among plural pieces of music, the control set information on the selected music is read out of the recording medium and after the external equipments are placed in the set state corresponding to the set information, the selected music begins to be played.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke reproducing apparatus having a recording medium in which karaoke performance sounds of a plurality of songs are recorded and reproducing the performance sounds of a selected song of the plurality of songs.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional karaoke reproducing apparatus, an external device such as a lighting device and a background image device is controlled in response to a karaoke performance sound obtained by playing a recording medium. For example, in the case of an illumination device, the color and illuminance of the illumination changes according to the karaoke performance song, and in the case of a background image device, the background image of the lyrics image of the performance song displayed on the display depends on the content of the performance song. Becomes These pieces of external control information are stored in advance in a memory in the karaoke reproducing apparatus for each song, and when a song is selected, the corresponding external control information is read from the memory to control the external device.

[0003]

However, in the conventional karaoke reproducing apparatus, when the external device is controlled in real time according to the performance of karaoke, the external device is placed in an operable set state before the performance for each song. Since it is necessary to store the control set information of the external device for the number of songs that can be selected in the memory,
There is a problem that the capacity of the memory becomes large and the cost becomes high. Further, when a new karaoke song is added, the control set information of the external device of the song must be stored in the memory in advance, which requires a troublesome operation.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to perform a karaoke reproduction in which the external device can be appropriately controlled after the karaoke performance is started even if the device is not provided with a large-capacity memory for storing the control set information of the external device. It is to provide a device.

[0005]

The karaoke playing device of the present invention is a karaoke playing device capable of generating real-time data for controlling an external device at the same time as playing a karaoke playing sound, and karaoke playing sounds of a plurality of songs. , A recording medium in which at least control set information and real-time data of an external device is recorded for each of a plurality of songs, a unit for generating a song selection command indicating one of the plurality of songs according to an operation, and a recording medium according to the song selection command Playing means for playing a recording medium for one song,
Before the performance of the playing means is started, the control set information according to the music selection command is read from the recording medium, and an external device is brought into a set state corresponding to the read control set information.

[0006]

In the karaoke reproducing apparatus of the present invention, when one song is selected from a plurality of songs by the operation, the control set information of the selected song is read from the recording medium and the external device corresponds to the control set information. After being set, the performance of the selected song is started.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the karaoke reproducing apparatus shown in FIG. 1, the auto changer 1 is provided with a disc storage unit 2, a disc transport unit 3, and a player unit 4. A plurality of discs 5 are stored in the disc storage unit 2, and one disc among the plurality of discs 5 is conveyed by the conveyance unit 3 onto a turntable (not shown) of the player unit 4 when the disc is played. When the performance is completed, the disc on the turntable is returned to a predetermined position in the disc storage unit 2 by the transport unit 3. The player unit 4 plays the disc on the turntable and outputs the read data. The disc transport unit 3 and the player unit 4 operate according to a command from a system controller 7 described later.

A data separation circuit 6 is connected to the data output of the player section 4. The data separation circuit 6 separates the data output from the player unit 4 into various data such as compressed image data, compressed audio data, real-time data, control data, and information data, and outputs the data from individual output terminals.
The data separation circuit 6 includes the system controller 7 described above.
Besides, an audio decoder 8 and a video decoder 9 are connected. Further, the data separation circuit 6 is provided with a terminal for connecting an external device. In this device, as the external equipment, a lighting device 25, a background image device 26 including a video camera and a recording medium playing device, and a DSP (Di
A voice processing device 27 including a digital signal processor) is provided, and these are devices for karaoke effect. The lighting device 25 controls the lighting in a so-called karaoke room. The background image device 26 is used as a background image of character information such as lyrics displayed on the display 22, for example, a captured image of a singer using a video camera, an image of a song and a song image by a performance operation of a recording medium playing device. It is for displaying an image according to a situation, a place of a song, or a season of a song, and generates a background image signal indicating a background image. The voice processing device 27 is a device for controlling the sound field in the karaoke room by the karaoke sound or the singing sound, and is arranged in the voice reproduction system as described later. The lighting device 25, the background image device 26, and the audio processing device 27 are also connected to the system controller 7.

The audio decoder 8 decodes the separated compressed audio data and restores it as uncompressed audio data such as PCM digital data. Since the compressed audio data is the compressed audio data of a plurality of channels, the audio data of the channel designated according to the signal from the system controller 7 is restored. The audio data output from the audio decoder 8 is supplied to the D / A converter 11 and converted into an analog audio signal, and the analog audio signal is supplied to the speaker 19 via the audio processing device 27 and the amplifier 18. It has become so. An output signal of a microphone 28 for singing is separately supplied to the voice processing device 27 via an amplifier 29.

The video decoder 9 decodes the separated compressed image data to restore it as uncompressed image data. The image data output from the video decoder 9 is D /
It is supplied to the A converter 12 and converted into an analog moving image signal. This moving image signal is output as it is and is also supplied to the image synthesizer 21. The system controller 7 comprises a microcomputer and receives the separated information data. The information data is stored in the RAM (random access memory) 13 and is selectively read from the RAM 13. The read information data is processed in the system controller 7 or supplied to the display character control circuit 20. The display character control circuit 20 has a character generator and a V-RAM, generates display character data according to the information data, writes the display character data in the V-RAM, and synchronizes with the sync signal of the above-mentioned moving image signal. The display character data is read from the device and converted into a character image signal and output to the image synthesizer 21. The character video signal is D / A in the image synthesizer 21.
It is combined with the moving image video signal from the converter 12 or the background video signal from the background video device 26.

The system controller 7 includes an operation unit 15,
The recording device 16 and the printer 17 are connected. The operation section 15 has a keyboard for designating a musical piece to be played, and also has a receiving section (not shown) that receives the musical piece designation from the remote control transmitter 23. The recording device 16 is for recording karaoke performance sounds and singing sounds on a recordable compact disk (not shown) such as a CD-R. Audio signals indicating the playing sound and the singing sound are supplied from the amplifier 18 to the recording device 16. The printer 17 is for printing recorded music information such as music titles on a label attached to a compact disc.

Next, the recorded contents of the disc 5 played by the player unit 4 will be described. All information is recorded on the disc 5 by digital signals, and as shown in FIG. 2, the information recording area of each disc 5 has a non-real time file area and a real time file area. In the non-real time file area, an access information file such as TOC and a karaoke information file such as song title are recorded. N in the real-time file area
The real-time files (N is an integer and corresponds to the number of songs) are, for example, MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group).
) Recorded in the standard. Each real-time file is called in units of chapters, and one chapter corresponds to one song. One chapter real-time file is one
It consists of compressed image data and compressed audio data of one song, and real-time data for controlling an external device, and these data are time-division multiplexed recorded in a file. For example, the real-time data may be 16 for the degree of excitement of a song.
It is shown in stages, and its start time and length are shown in time units (eg, frame units). The real-time data may have different contents for each connectable external device.

The access information file is composed of information indicating the position and time length of each chapter in the disc, and it is possible to access any chapter by referring to this information. The karaoke information file consists of various information about the disc and the song, and its structure is shown in FIG.
Shown in. The karaoke information file includes disc-related information and 1
It consists of one or more chapter information. One chapter information represents one chapter, that is, related information of a song,
The number of chapter information matches the number of songs. The disc-related information is information relating to the entire disc, for example, disc content, identification of the disc itself, and information such as the number of songs recorded on the disc.

Each chapter information includes a chapter information header, chapter common information, telop channel-specific information, and language-specific information, and the chapter information header includes identification information of the chapter information and information indicating the content. Common information within the chapter is (1) nationality of the song, (2) date of announcement of the song,
(3) song length, (4) copyright code, (5) singer classification, (6) song genre, (7) song theme image and song theme, (8) song situation, (9) song Special genre, (10) song tempo, (11) song location image, (12) song difficulty, (13) multi-audio mode, (14) background video information, (15) control device information, and (16) ) DSP mode information and the like.

The telop channel-specific information is information relating to character information (telop) corresponding to the chapter. It is possible to assign a plurality of character information sequences (telop channels) to one chapter, for example,
It is possible to add telops of different languages that can be selected to one chapter. The information for each telop channel includes (1) number of telop channels, (2) telop channel number, (3) telop language, and (4) telop character form, and includes telop channel number, telop language, and telop character form. Each piece of information is repeatedly recorded for the number of telop channels.

The language-specific information is information that depends on the language among the information related to the chapter, and includes (1) number of information by language, (2) language code, (3) description code system, and (4) information size by language. , (5) song name, (6) song name reading, (7) singer name, (8) singer name reading, (9) lyricist name, (10) lyricist name reading, (11)
Composer name, (12) composer name reading, (13) first phrase,
(14) Reading of the first phrase and (15) Location data. Information from (2) language code to (15) location data is repeatedly recorded for each language.

Next, the operation of the above karaoke reproducing apparatus will be described. When a disc is newly stored in the disc storage portion 2 of the autochanger 1, the installation operation is first performed. In this installation operation, the system controller 7 stores a new disc in the disc storage portion 2 as shown in FIG. 4, and when it detects it (step S1), mounts the disc on the turntable of the player portion 4. Disc transport unit 3
To the disk set command (step S
2). When the disc transport unit 3 finishes mounting the disc on the turntable of the player unit 4, it is supplied to the system controller 7 as a mounting end signal. Therefore,
When the system controller 7 receives the mounting end signal (step S3), it commands the player unit 4 to rotate the disk (step S4), and commands the reading of data (step S5). The player unit 4 rotates the disc together with the turntable, and after the rotation reaches a predetermined rotation speed, reads and outputs data from the non-real time file area of the disc. The read data is supplied to the system controller 7 via the data separation circuit 6 and temporarily stored in a buffer memory (not shown) in the system controller 7. The system controller 7 sequentially writes the supplied data to the external RAM 13 (step S6), and determines whether or not the reading of the data by the player unit 4 is completed (step S7). For example, until the bit indicating the end of data supply is supplied and it is found that the reading of data is completed, step S6 is performed.
The data supplied by the execution of is written in the RAM 13. When the reading of the data is completed, an operation stop command is issued to the player unit 4 (step S8), and a disc return command is issued to the disc transport unit 3 (step S9). Therefore, the player unit 4
Stops the rotational drive of the turntable, and then the disc transport unit 3 transports and stores the disc on the turntable to the predetermined storage position of the disc in the disc storage unit 2. System controller 7 is step S9
After execution of, it is determined whether or not another new disk is stored (step S10). If another new disk is stored in the disk storage unit 2, the process proceeds to step S2, and if no other new disk is stored, the installation operation ends.

The data to be written in the RAM 13 may be all the above-mentioned data of the access information file and the karaoke information file, but since it is difficult to have a capacity for storing all the data, at least the disc number unique to the disc and the disc thereof. The address indicating the storage position of the disc storage unit 2, the position of the song in the disc, the song name, the singer name, the lyricist name, the composer name, the length of the song, the copyright code, and the like.

The storage of a new disc can be obtained by an input from the operation unit 15 by the user. Further, a sensor for detecting the presence / absence of a disc is provided at each storage position of the disc storage unit 2, and an area for storing the detection result is provided in the RAM 13, and the detection outputs of all the sensors and the storage contents of the RAM 13 for each installation operation. And compare
The detection result may be written in the RAM 13 while determining whether a new disk is stored.

Further, in the above embodiment, the song data such as the song name is obtained at the time of installation of the disc in which the image data and the audio data are recorded. However, from a dedicated disc in which only the song data such as the song name is recorded. You may get song data when you install the disc. Alternatively, the song data of a plurality of discs on which image data and audio data are recorded is recorded on one of the plurality of discs, and these song data are obtained at the time of installation of this one disc. May be.

After the installation operation is performed as described above, karaoke reproduction of the song selected by the user becomes possible. First, in the music selection operation, the user inputs a music selection number by operating the number keys or the alphabet keys of the operation unit 15 or the remote control transmitter 23. The song selection number has a plurality of digits and is a number that designates the disc and the song recorded on the disc. When the key is operated, it is held in a buffer (not shown) in the operation unit 15. As shown in FIG. 5, the system controller 7 determines whether or not a music selection key (not shown) of the operation unit 15 is operated at a predetermined timing or by an interrupt operation (step S
11) If the music selection key is operated, the music selection number is read from the above buffer and written in the music selection list table of the RAM 13 (step S12). The music selection list table is formed in the RAM 13 and, as shown in FIG. 6, a music selection number and a recording flag which will be described later are written in the order of performance, and the order is advanced when the performance is completed. The song name corresponding to the read song selection number is read from the RAM 13 as information data (step S13), and the read data is supplied to the display character control circuit 20 (step S1).
4). The display character control circuit 20 generates display character data indicating the song title and writes it at a predetermined position in the V-RAM. The display character data is read out from the V-RAM, converted into a character image signal, and then output to the image synthesizer 21. When the character video signal is a signal indicating a predetermined color in the image synthesizer 21, the character video signal is output instead of the video image signal from the D / A converter 12 to be synthesized with the video image signal. Therefore, it is confirmed that the music title is displayed as a character image on the display 22 and the music selection by key operation is accepted.

The system controller 7 executes step S14.
After execution of, the copyright code corresponding to the read song selection number is read from the RAM 13 (step S15). RAM
Since the copyright code is included in the data written and read from the disk at the time of the installation operation, the data is read from the No. 13. The copyright code is a code indicating the copyright holder of the song. It is determined whether the selected song is a recordable song based on the read copyright code (step S16). In a ROM (Read Only Memory) 14 provided outside the system controller 7, as shown in FIG. 7, a copyright code, a copyright holder, and recordability are written in advance as a recordability data table. Regarding whether or not recording is possible, "1" can be recorded and "0" cannot be recorded.
Therefore, it is determined from the recordability data table whether or not the selected song is a recordable song. If the recording is possible, a recording enable display is made (step S17), and if the recording is impossible, a recording disable display is made (step S18). These displays may be displayed on the display 22 or may be a display (not shown) provided in the apparatus for recording permission / prohibition. When displaying on the display 22, the display character control circuit 20 generates display character data indicating that recording is possible or impossible in response to a command from the system controller 7, and V-
Written to RAM.

Since the system controller 7 is capable of recording, after executing step S17, it is determined whether or not there is a recording reservation (step S19). This is determined by whether or not the recording reservation key of the operation unit 15 or the remote control transmitter 23 is operated. If there is a recording reservation, the recording flag of the above music selection list table is set (step S20). Since "0" indicating non-recording is written in advance as the initial value of the recording flag in the song selection list table, when the recording reservation key is operated, the recording flag indicating recording is made to correspond to the song selection number. Set to 1 ".

Next, the disc playing operation will be described. As shown in FIGS. 8 to 10, when the system controller 7 first issues a command to start the performance by operating the keys of the operation unit 15 (step S21), the system controller 7 starts from the first performance order in the music selection list table formed in the RAM 13. The song selection number and the recording flag are read (step S22). RAM for the disc address and song number corresponding to the read song selection number
13 is read from the disk 13 (step S23), and a disk set command is issued to the disk transport unit 3 so that the disk having the read disk address is mounted on the turntable of the player unit 4 (step S24). When the disc transport unit 3 finishes mounting the disc on the turntable of the player unit 4, it is supplied to the system controller 7 as a mounting end signal. Therefore, when the system controller 7 receives the mounting end signal (step S25), it instructs the player unit 4 to rotate the disk (step S26), and determines whether or not the disk performance can be started (step S26). S27). For example, when the performance is prohibited by the key operation of the operation unit 15, the disc performance is not started. When you can start playing the disc,
The reading of data is instructed (step S28). The player unit 4 reads and outputs data from the non-real time file area of the disc. The read data is supplied to the system controller 7 via the data separation circuit 6 and temporarily stored in a buffer memory (not shown) in the system controller 7. The system controller 7 uses the supplied data to read the above-mentioned (14) background video information related to the read music number in the chapter common information, (1
5) Control device information and (16) DSP mode information are sequentially written in the external RAM 13 (step S29), and it is determined whether or not the reading of data by the player unit 4 is completed (step S30). In this embodiment, the background image information, the control device information and the DSP mode information are the control set information of the external device.

The data supplied by the execution of step S29 is written in the RAM 13 until it is found that the data reading is completed. When the reading of the data is completed, the control device information is read from the RAM 13 (step S31) and supplied to each external device (step S32). As shown in FIG. 11, one bit of the control device information corresponds to one external device, and when the bit value is "1", the external device corresponding to the bit can be controlled. Since the lighting device 25, the background image device 26, and the audio processing device 27 are provided as external devices in this device, 1-bit data corresponding to these external devices is supplied. Therefore, the one supplied
When the bit data is "1", the external device is in a set state that can be controlled according to the real-time data.

The system controller 7 is step S32.
After executing, the background image information and the DSP mode information are read from the RAM 13 (step S33), the background image information is supplied to the background image device 26, and the DSP mode information is supplied to the audio processing device 27 (step S34). In the background image device 26, the operation state is set according to the supplied background image information. That is, it is set whether to output a background image signal indicating a background image of a captured image of a singer or the like, or an image of a song, a situation of the song, a place of the song, a season of the song, and the like. In the audio processing device 27, a processing program of the DSP and data such as reverberation time and multiplication coefficient for controlling the sound field are set according to the DSP mode information. This data is set to a value suitable for the selected song, for example.

By this operation, the external devices 25 to 27 are brought into an operable state in accordance with the real-time data, so that the system controller 7 next issues a disc performance from the track of the read music number (step S3).
5). Therefore, the player unit 4 starts playing the music designated by the music selection number. Also, it is determined from the read recording flag whether or not the recording is reserved (step S3).
6). When the recording flag is set to "1", a recording start command is issued to the recording device 16 (step S37). Since the audio signal including the singing sound is supplied from the amplifier 18 to the recording device 16, the recording on the compact disc is performed according to the recording start command.

The system controller 7 is step S37.
After execution of step S22, the recorded song information corresponding to the song selection number read in step S22 is read from the RAM 13 (step S
38). The recorded song information is at least a song name, a lyricist name, and a composer name, and information such as a singer, a recording date and time, and a place may be added. After reading the recorded music information, it is output to the printer 17 (step S39). Printer 17
Prints recorded song information on a label designed to be attached to a compact disc. As a result, if the label is affixed to the label surface of the recorded compact disc, the recorded song is recorded.

Actually, the performance sound of the designated music is output after the execution of step S39 due to the operation delay of the player unit 4. However, it goes without saying that the disk performance from the track of the read music number may be instructed after the operations of steps S36 to S39 are performed first. In the disk performance, the data output from the player unit 4 is separated by the data separation circuit 6, and the video signal and the audio signal reproduced from the compressed image data and the compressed audio data are output to the display 22 and the speaker 19. The real-time data separated in the data separation circuit 6 is the lighting device 25, the background image device 26, and the audio processing device 27.
Is supplied to. Therefore, the illuminating device 25 performs step S32.
1 of the control device information supplied during operation of
When the bit data is “1”, the set state is already controllable according to the real-time data, so the illuminance and color of the illumination change according to the real-time data. When the supplied 1-bit data of the control device information is "1" at the time of operation of step S32, the background image device 26 has the operation state set according to the background image information by the operation of step S34. The content of the background image and its color change according to the real-time data. Also, when the supplied 1-bit data of the control device information is "1" at the time of the operation of step S32, the audio processing device 27 also performs D
Since the sound field control state is set according to the SP mode information, for example, the pitch and volume of the singing sound further change according to the real-time data.

When the supplied 1-bit data in the control device information is "0", the lighting device 2
5. The background video device 26 and the audio processing device 27 operate according to their own programs. In this case, the lighting device 25 and the like may operate according to the reproduced karaoke performance sound. Further, the background video device 26 and the audio processing device 27 may not be controlled according to the real-time data even when the supplied 1-bit data is "1".

The system controller 7 is step S39.
After execution of, it is determined whether or not the performance of the selected song has ended (step S40). This is discriminated from the time information in the control data supplied from the data separation circuit 6 by playing the disc. When the performance of the selected song is completed, a performance stop command is issued to the player section 4 (step S4).
1), a disk return command is issued to the disk transport unit 3 (step S42). Therefore, the player unit 4 stops the disc playing operation, and the disc transport unit 3 transports the disc on the turntable to the predetermined storage position of the disc in the disc storage unit 2 after the rotation of the turntable is stopped. Store. System controller 7
After the disk return command is issued, the song order of the song selection list table is advanced by one song (step S43), and it is determined whether or not the song selection number is recorded first in the song selection list table (step S44). If the music selection number is recorded, the process returns to step S22 and the above operation is repeated. On the other hand, if the music selection number is not recorded, the performance operation ends.

In the embodiment described above, the player section 4 is responsive to the data read command in step S28.
Reads and outputs data from the non-real time file area of the disc, but is not limited to this. For example, as shown in FIG. 12, since the control information area is provided at the beginning of the file of each chapter unit of each real-time file area, common information in the chapter for only the music of the chapter is recorded and placed here, Background image information, control device information, and DSP mode information may be read from the control information area.

Further, in the present invention, it is obvious that the recording medium on which at least the karaoke performance sounds of a plurality of songs are recorded is not limited to the disc, but may be another recording medium such as a tape. Further, although the present invention has been described with respect to the case of reproducing a medium in which information compressed by MPEG or the like is recorded, the present invention is not limited to this, and a medium to which control information for controlling an external device can be added. In that case, the same effect can be obtained.

[0034]

As described above, in the karaoke reproducing apparatus of the present invention, when one song is selected from a plurality of songs by the operation, the control set information of the selected song is read from the recording medium and the external device is operated. After making the set state corresponding to the control set information, the performance of the selected song starts, so
Even if a large-capacity memory for storing control set information of an external device is not provided in the device, the external device can be brought into an operable state by the time the karaoke performance of the selected song starts, and the device cost can be reduced. Can be planned. Further, there is also an advantage that a troublesome operation for preliminarily storing the control set information in the memory is not necessary even when a new karaoke piece is added.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a structure of an information area of a disc.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a structure of a karaoke information file.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an installation operation.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a music selection operation.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a music selection list table.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a record enable / disable data table.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a disc playing operation.

9 is a flowchart showing a continuation portion of the disc playing operation of FIG.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a continuation part of the disc playing operation shown in FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of control device information.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a file structure of each chapter unit of a real-time file area.

[Explanation of symbols for main parts]

 1 Auto Changer 2 Disc Storage Section 3 Disc Conveying Section 4 Player Section 5 Disc 7 System Controller 16 Recording Device 17 Printer 22 Display 23 Remote Control Transmitter 25 Illumination Device 26 Background Video Device 27 Audio Processing Device

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification number Reference number in the agency FI Technical indication location G11B 27/34 P 8224-5D (72) Inventor Sumio Hosaka 426-10 Hanazono, Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama Piioni A) Tokorozawa Plant (72) Inventor Yoshiaki Moriyama 6-6-1, Fujimi, Tsurugashima City, Saitama Pioneer Research Institute (72) Koichi Ono 6-6-1, Fujimi, Tsurugashima City, Saitama Prefecture Onia Co., Ltd.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A karaoke reproducing apparatus capable of generating real-time data for controlling an external device at the same time as reproducing a karaoke performance sound, wherein the karaoke performance sounds of a plurality of songs, and a control set of an external device for each of the plurality of songs. A recording medium on which at least information and the real-time data are recorded, a means for generating a music selection command indicating one of a plurality of music in response to an operation, and the recording medium for one music according to the music selection command. Playing means and a means for reading the control set information corresponding to the music selection command from the recording medium before the performance of the playing means to bring the external device into a set state corresponding to the read control set information. A karaoke reproducing device characterized by including. 2. The karaoke reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control set information is control device information indicating whether or not the external device can be controlled. 3. The external device is a background image device that outputs a signal indicating a background image of a character image displayed on a display, and the control set information is a type of background image that the background image device should output as a signal. 2. The karaoke reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the karaoke reproducing apparatus is background image information indicating. 4. The external device is a DSP for audio processing.
2. The karaoke reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control set information is DSP mode information for setting an operation mode of the DSP.