MUSIC DATA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MUSIC DATA

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user receiving music data distribution service to easily select a piece of music by saving labor to select a target piece of music from the list of a huge number of music data, and labor for previously check the title of music or its artist name. SOLUTION: When a server apparatus 1 transmits music data to a portable telephone 2, keyword data associated with the music data are transmitted. When the music data are reproduced in the portable telephone 2, the keyword data associated with the music data are transmitted to the server apparatus 1. The server apparatus 1 which has received the keyword data retrieves the keyword data which agree with the received data from all the keyword data stored in a keyword data storage part 13, prepares a list as candidate music information on the basis of music data associated with the keyword data, and then transmits it to the portable telephone 2.