The invention provides a sound-reproducing apparatus and a high frequency
interpolation-processing method in each of which high frequency
interpolation processing having a light burden imposed thereon can be
executed. Compressed audio data is decoded by a decoder (202a) and the
resulting audio signal is transmitted to a harmonizer (209a). Auxiliary
information such as a sampling rate and a bit rate contained in the
decoded audio signal is read out by a header reader (209b) and is
transmitted to a harmonizer (209a). Communication of signals from/to
respective portions is made through a bus (210). The harmonizer (209a)
has a preset for an interpolation band obtained in accordance with a
format and a sampling frequency of the compressed audio data, and
executes processing by referring to file information transmitted thereto
from the header reader (209b).