Patent ID: 7058882
Filing Date: 2006-06-06
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An audio data recording/reproducing apparatus capable of editing audio data made up of a plurality of tracks comprising: a first storage device that stores a plurality of sound data; a second storage device that stores track data, comprising current track data and track history data, for each of a plurality of tracks, the track data for each of the tracks including first information for designating, as partial sound data to be reproduced in the track corresponding to the track data, at least one part of one sound data of said plurality of sound data stored in said first storage device, and second information for designating respective reproduction timing of the designated partial sound data; a reproduction device that, in accordance with the current track data for each of the tracks stored in said second storage device, reads out and reproduces respective partial sound data designated by said first information of the current track data from said first storage device, at the respective reproduction timing designated by said second information of the current track data for the respective partial sound data; and a processor coupled with said first storage device and said second storage, device, said processor being adapted to: perform an editing operation for editing the current track data for a desired one of the tracks, in accordance with an instruction for editing, to create new current track data; perform control to store the edited new current track data for the desired track in said second storage device while leaving the current track data before the editing stored in said second storage device, as one of the track history data; and perform control to select, in accordance with an instruction for undoing, one of the track history data, as new current track data.