Patent ID: 7986349

Claim:
A recording device comprising: recording means for recording data onto a recording medium, wherein the data includes: audio data comprising: at least one music piece that is grouped into at least one group and is managed by management information, and fringe information about the at least one group, wherein the fringe information comprises at least one group thumbnail image associated with the at least one group, and image data comprising first image data associated with the at least one music piece and second image data associated with the at least one group; and controlling means for generating a track index file, a track thumbnail file comprising at least one first thumbnail image of the first image data associated with the at least one music piece recorded on said recording medium and a group thumbnail file comprising the at least one group thumbnail image of the second image data, and for controlling recording of said image data onto said recording medium by said recording means, wherein the track index file comprises: at least one first identifier identifying a start address and an end address within the audio data of at least one part of the at least one music piece associated with the first thumbnail image and a first link indicating at least one other identifier identifying at least one other part of the at least one music piece, and at least one second identifier identifying a start address and an end address within the audio data of at least one part of the fringe information about the at least one group and a second link indicating at least one other identifier identifying at least one other part of the fringe information.