Patent ID: 8085624

Claim:
A method for storing audio-centered information on a unitary storage medium while using a table-of-contents (TOC) mechanism for therein specifying an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium, comprising: assigning one or more sub-TOCs to each of a plurality of differently standardized audio formats, the sub-TOCs for specifying an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium, the different audio formats including a first format of a first standard and second format of a second standard and providing a single master-TOC with pointing information specifically pointing to each of the sub-TOCs; and wherein, some players conforming to the first standard for playing audio information stored in the format of the first standard being unable to play information stored in the format of a second standard and some players conforming to the second standard for playing audio information stored in the format of the second standard being unable to play information stored in the format of the first standard.