To provide an audio reproduction device in which audio reproduction corresponding to the intention of a content creator can be performed by easily achieving audio reproduction corresponding to multi-channels of, for example, 5.1 channels or more, and which can be easily used by a user and which is sufficiently suitable for practical use, and to provide an audio reproduction method.
The method includes: a means (36e) for generating selection information for dividing input audio information into an audio channel which can be reproduced by an optical disk reproduction device (11) and an audio channel which can not be reproduced by the optical disk reproduction device (11); and a dividing means (32) for dividing audio information of the audio channel which can not be reproduced by the optical disk reproduction device (11) from the input audio information on the basis of the generated selection information, and outputting the divided audio information to external audio reproduction equipment (18), and performing audio reproduction.
MUKAIDE TAKANOBU
Satoshi Kono
Makoto Nakamura
Kurata Masatoshi
Takashi Mine
Yoshihiro Fukuhara
Sadao Muramatsu
Ryo Hashimoto
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