Patent ID: 6898369
Filing Date: 2005-05-24
Classification: G10H,G11B

Abstract:
1. Signal encoding method, comprising the steps of: encoding a signal to produce audio data, audio manager information for managing an audio title set including a track, audio title set information for accessing the track, and table-of-contents (TOC) information; formatting the audio data, the audio manager information, the audio title set information and the table-of-contents (TOC) information, encoded in the encoding step to arrange the audio data in an audio pack of the track, to arrange the audio manager information in an area of an audio manager, to arrange the audio title set information in an area of an audio title set, and to arrange the table-of-contents (TOC) information indicative of a position of the audio data in a table-of-contents (TOC) file, said table-of-contents (TOC) file being independent of said audio title set information, the table-of-contents (TOC) information containing an audio play pointer (SAPP) which has a start address and an end address of the audio data in the audio pack and attribute data of the audio pack, and the attribute data containing a sampling frequency of the audio data to play back a musical composition containing the audio data; and outputting the audio data, the audio manager information, the audio title set information and the table-of-contents (TOC) information formatted in the formatting step.