Patent ID: 7729209
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An audio recording and playback apparatus comprising: a disc drive, on which an audio compact disc storing audio data including a plurality of tracks, is to be set; a storage unit having a storage capacity capable of storing all tracks of the audio data stored in the audio compact disc; a controller for reading out a track of the audio data from the audio compact disc set on the disc drive, writing the read out track of the audio data into the storage unit and reading out only a part of the track of the audio data from the storage unit at an audio data playback rate in parallel with writing the track of the audio data into the storage unit to monitor that the writing into the storage unit is being correctly performed so that a user can verify whether a ripping process is being correctly performed; and an outputting unit for outputting the part of the track of the audio data read out from the storage unit, wherein, when the ripping process of the controller finishes reading out of the track of the audio data from the audio compact disc and writing the track of the audio data to the storage unit, begins to read out a next track of audio data from the audio compact disc, writes the next track of audio data into the storage unit, and sends a message to a monitoring process, without user interaction, identifying reading out of the next track of audio data has begun, and the monitoring process of the controller stops reading out the part of the track of the audio data from the storage unit after receiving the message identifying reading out of the next track from the audio compact disc has begun, starts reading out part of the next track from the storage unit and transfers the part of the next track of the audio data to the outputting unit for playback so that a user can verify the ripping process on the next track of the audio data is being correctly performed.