Information providing apparatus, information providing method, and information record medium therefor

摘要

An information providing apparatus includes a hard disk drive (35) and an optical disk (39) capable of storing contents data and local meta data indicating the attribute of the contents data, an input unit (49) which selects plural pieces of contents data, a network interface (50) which obtains reference data in the selected contents data, and a CPU (46) which performs at least one of play-back control of the contents data and provision of evaluation information in the contents data based on presence/absence of record of contents data, the reference data, and the attribute data in the hard disk drive (35) and optical disk (39). <IMAGE>