Patent ID: 8180469
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A computing system implemented process for linking portions of digital media data during playback comprising: obtaining access to digital media data, the digital media data being in a digital media encoding format, the digital media data including at least three digital media data segments, the three or more digital media segments being designated as a totality of digital media segments, with no more than two of the three or more digital media segments of the totality being from a same digital media track, wherein each track includes a plurality of digital media segments; and responsive to user input, linking two or more of the at least two digital media data segments, the two or more linked digital media data segments including fewer than the totality of digital media data segments, at least two of the two or more linked segments being from different digital media tracks, the two or more linked digital media data segments being linked into a trans-segment portion of digital media data such that the linked two or more digital media data segments are processed as a single entity for playback purposes, regardless of a playback mode selected.