Patent ID: 7142482
Filing Date: 2006-11-28
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An audio device for reading out track files recorded on a recordable optical disk that contains at least one session, wherein a session is formed each time writing is performed and includes one or more track files, the audio device comprising: a display; a readout unit for reading out track files recorded on the recordable optical disk; a controller which manages the track files recorded on the recordable optical disk in each session and which displays information regarding the file of an arbitrary track on the display; and an operation unit for starting playback and changing at least one of the sessions and the tracks in the sessions; wherein the controller regards each session as a virtual disk, allocates a track number for each of the track files in each session in order of time of recording, automatically plays back the tracks in a session in order of oldest time of recording to newest time of recording, and displays a name of the virtual disk corresponding to the session containing the file of the arbitrary track on the display, the track number of the track, and a name of the track, and the controller controls the readout unit so that a track in the track files recorded in the latest session is played back first, and sessions are changed in order of latest session to earliest session.