Patent ID: 6975568

Claim:
A recorded-content information display method for a disc player in which is mounted a disc which is provided with a first area for recording musical data and a second area for recording information related to the content of what is recorded in the first area, this information being called first-area recorded-content information, and in which the first-area recorded-content information is recorded in each of a plurality of blocks provided for the second area by a different combination of a character code and a language code, the recorded-content information display method being for reading the first-area recorded-content information from a designated block of the second area and for displaying it in a designated language on a display section, the recorded-content information display method comprising: recording in each block a character code of the block and a language code of all blocks in addition to the first-area recorded-content information; when the first-area recorded-content information of a designated block is read and displayed, counting and saving a read count corresponding to the language code of the block; and when a new disc is played, reading first-area recorded-content information from a block having a language code which has the maximum read count, this language code being called a maximum-count language code, and displaying it in a language corresponding to the language code; wherein, when the total of the read counts corresponding to language codes is larger than a specified value, the first-area recorded-content information is read from the block having the maximum-count language code and displayed, and when the total is equal to or smaller than the specified value, a character code is sequentially read from each block; it is determined whether the character code matches a first-priority character code determined by the system of the disc player; and when they match, the first-area recorded-content information of the block is displayed and a read count corresponding to the language code of the block is incremented.