Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method And Information Processing Program

Abstract

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus which can direct a user to a playlist different from a playlist being reproduced. There is provided the information processing apparatus including a content storage unit storing a plurality of contents therein, a playlist storage unit storing a plurality of playlists which is related to at least some of the plurality of contents, a reproducing unit sequentially reproducing a plurality of contents belonging to a first playlist in a plurality of playlists, a candidate content extracting unit extracting one or more candidate contents relating to a content being reproduced by the reproducing unit from the content storage unit, a playlist extracting unit extracting a second playlist to which the extracted candidate contents belong from the playlist storage unit, and a playlist switching unit switching a playlist to be reproduced by the reproducing unit from the first playlist into the second playlist.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An information processing apparatus comprising:
 circuitry configured to control:   extracting candidate data, from a content database, based on characteristic data of the candidate data and data being currently reproduced by a reproducing unit which sequentially reproduces a plurality of data of a first group including the data being currently reproduced;   transmitting, to the reproducing unit, the candidate data to be reproduced by the reproducing unit, from the first group to the candidate data; and   extracting, from the content database, a second group not including the candidate data based on characteristic data of the second group and the candidate data.