To facilitate the update of image information to quickly cope with the vogue in a communication karaoke system, and to reduce the size of a terminal unit by omitting a storing means for storing a video CD or the like.

This system 100 is composed roughly of one or more of terminal units 1 for storing and regenerating music information and animation information, and a center (program information providing unit) 3 connected with the terminal unit 1 and a communication line 2 to distribute the music information and the animation information to the terminal unit 1 via the communication line 2. The center 3 prepares or accumulates the animation information, the music information and other information to be distributed to the terminal unit 1 via the communication line 2, and controls various kinds of files stored in the terminal unit 1 via the communication line 2.