To provide a highly satisfactory communication karaoke machine whose control is principally for transmission and reception of information through a communication line.

An acquisition means 82 when acquiring information regarding played music from a center device 14 through the communication line 16, acquires a plurality of kinds of information regarding the played music in the increasing order of information amounts and quits acquiring the information a specified time after the start of the acquisition, so the acquisition of the information is ended within a predetermined wait time to prevent user's stress from building up and the played music is output by using information which is relatively large in amount among pieces of information acquired within the predetermined time to provide a suitable musical performance. Namely, the communication karaoke machine 12 can be provided which performs control principally over transmission and reception of information through the communication line 16 and is highly satisfactory.