Patent ID: 6771568
Filing Date: 2004-08-03
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A digital audio recorder comprising:a. a compact disk player for playing at least one compact disk having multiple tracks, each track containing an audio selection; b. at least one hard drive and associated memory, the memory containing a database containing types of data selected from the group consisting of album name, artist name, song title, track playlist and correlations among the data, at least one of the correlations selected from the group consisting of album name to artist name, album name to song title, album name to playlist, artist name to song title, artist name to playlist, song title to playlist, and song title to track; c. a second memory for digital audio files each audio file associated with at least one type of data; d. a display sized and configured to display data selected from the database; e. an audio output; f. at least one button or knob; g. a central processor connected to the compact disk player, the at least one hard drive and associated memory, the second memory, the display, the audio output and the at least one button or knob to enable a user to operate the compact disk player, store in the second memory audio selections from a disk placed in the compact disk player, select and create playlists, and output audio selections contained in the second memory in an order according to a selected playlist; and h. a keypad removably connected to the central processor in a manner to enable a user to input data into the database.