Patent ID: 7113454
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disc player for playing back a disc that includes a plurality of folders, each folder including music files, the disc player comprising: an MP3 decoder; a digital filter, the digital filter operable to filter music data supplied by the MP3 decoder; a digital-to-analog converter operable to convert music data from the digital filter into analog signals that may be outputted as audio signals; a system controller, the system controller operable to analyze a recording structure of music data in a session on the disc and to operate in a folder playback mode; and memory operable to store the results of the system controller's analysis of the recording structure on the disc; wherein when the system controller operates in folder playback mode, the system controller plays back a first few seconds of a file in a folder on the disc, then proceeds to play back a first few seconds of another file in the folder on the disc, and continues to play back a few first seconds of each other file in the folder on the disc until the first few seconds of all files in the folder have been played back.