Method and apparatus for searching recommended music in the internet, and a computer-readable medium encoded with a plurality of processor-executable instruction sequences for searching recommended music in the internet

An apparatus for searching for recommended music in the internet for a listener includes a genre list database, a selection history database, an artist's genre database, and an extracting section for extracting the corresponding genre names to the given music titles or artist names in the selection history database, by using the artist's genre database. This extraction is initiated by receiving a request for internet-search. The apparatus further includes a search request section for sending a search request to the predefined WWW server to download the music, with searching keyword of the genre names which are included in the genre list database, but which are not included in the extracted genre names by the extracting section. The apparatus further includes a result display unit for receiving a search result from the WWW server and displaying the search result on the apparatus.