u201d name of album such as u201c brothers in arms u201d name of artist such as u201c dire straits u201d language such as u201c english u201d group qualifier such as u201c all u201d which will retrieve all tracks and male female identifier table 1 shows a mapping of these high level queries into a low level query fig2 illustrates an operational diagram of one embodiment of this invention suitable for use in an automobile music player automatic speech recognition asr system 201 receives a voice command input high end automobiles often already have asr systems which can be adapted for this invention in the preferred embodiment upon recognition asr system 201 replays the recognized command for confirmation upon confirmation asr system 201 supplies data corresponding to the recognized voice command to command analyzer 202 command analyzer 202 translates the recognized voice command into a corresponding data base query retrieval engine 203 receives the data base query from command analyzer and retrieves the corresponding music data or pointers to their storage location playback engine 204 plays back the corresponding music data via an output device such as speakers 123 proper programming of digital music system 100 via rom eprom 102 enables this functional operation rather than setting the parameters of the query to retrieve songs of a particular genre the system recognizes a spoken utterance of the genre group album itself for example the user speaks u201c pop songs u201d to retrieve pop songs from a mixed database fig3 illustrates a flow chart 300 of actions in.