Patent ID: 9542971
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F,G11B

Claim:
1. An optical disc library apparatus comprising: one or more magazines configured to store a plurality of optical discs; a plurality of optical disc drives configured to perform recording or reproducing on or from the optical discs; a changer mechanism configured to perform loading or ejecting any of the optical discs stored in the magazine to or from any of the optical disc drives; and a controller configured to control the changer mechanism, wherein the magazine includes magazine-disc association information associating magazine information specifying the magazine with disc information specifying the plurality of optical discs stored in the magazine, and the controller outputs the magazine-disc association information; wherein the magazine information includes magazine specific ID information specifying the magazine, and the disc information includes a plurality of combinations of optical disc specific ID information specifying the optical disc and the position information specifying position of the optical disc in the magazine.