Patent ID: 6393430
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of automatically recording audio/visual selections included in a custom playlist, comprising the steps of:selecting one or more audio/visual selections, including titles and contents, to be added to the custom playlist from at least one source medium; obtaining information about the selected audio/visual selections; saving the obtained information for each of the selected audio/visual selection to a playlist file in order to add the selected audio/visual selections to the custom playlist; modifying the saved information for the selected audio/visual selections in the playlist file in order to manipulate the audio/visual selections in the custom playlist saving the playlist file and the selected audio/visual selections to a storage device of the personal computer; and controlling a recording device that is physically connected to the personal computer to record the selected audio/visual selections included in the custom playlist from the storage device to a recordable medium.