Patent ID: 6791909
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An optical disc reproducing apparatus capable of accommodating a plurality of optical discs and reproducing information recorded on an optical disc in a specified accommodation location, comprising:disc detecting means for detecting types of said optical discs to determine whether or not said optical discs can be entered in a program; disc type memory means for storing detection results of said disc detecting means, associated with disc accommodation location information indicating disc accommodation locations of respective discs; accepting means for accepting an instruction to enter information recorded on said optical disc in the program to specify a reproducing order of the information; and output means for referring to said detection results stored in said disc type memory means and outputting a notification indicating that said information cannot be entered in said program, if said information specified by the instruction accepted by said accepting means is information recorded on an optical disc unable to be entered in said program.