A content recording apparatus for communicating with a content playback apparatus via a network, includes a first
receiver for receiving, from the content playback apparatus, information related to a content segment to be received by the content playback apparatus, the content segment being a portion of a single content, an attaching unit for attaching, to the content segment, a content identification identifying the content segment based on the received related information, a second
receiver for receiving, from the content playback apparatus, the content segment received by the content playback apparatus, a recorder for recording the received content segment with both the content identification and the related information associated with the received content segment, and a synthesizer for synthesizing, into the single content, content segments having the same content identification.