Patent ID: 6898370

Claim:
An audio data transmitting method, comprising the steps of: preparing audio data, audio manager information for managing an audio title set including a track, audio title set information for accessing the track, and table-of-contents (TOC) information; formatting the audio data, the audio manager information, the audio title set information, and the table-of-contents (TOC) information prepared in the preparing step, to arrange the audio data in an audio pack of the track, to arrange the audio manager information in an area of an audio manager; to arrange the audio title set information in an area of an audio title set, and to arrange the table-of-contents (TOC) information indicative of a position of the audio data in a table-of-contents (TOC) file, said table-of-contents (TOC) file being independent of said audio title set information the table-of-contents (TOC) information containing an audio play pointer (SAPP) which has audio play pointer table information (SAPPTI) and audio track play pointers (SAPP # 1 to # n) provided for each track, and the audio play pointer table information containing the number (# n) of the audio track play pointers; and outputting the audio data, the audio manager information, the audio title set information, and the table-of-contents (TOC) information formatted in the formatting step.