PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method by which reproduction candidate music which may be required by a user at that time can be presented without performing selection operation of music, genre or the like by a user.;SOLUTION: This apparatus is provided with a music reproduction history storage part 116 storing at least discrimination information of music reproduced in respective time zone corresponding to a plurality of time zones decided respectively as interval of specific points of time. A time at which music forming request is received is discriminated, it is discriminated which time zone the discriminated time is included in out of a plurality of time zones. A list of the reproduction candidate music in the discriminated time zone is made as a list of music selected from a group of music in which discrimination information is stored corresponding to the discriminated time zone stored in the music reproduction history storage part 116.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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