Patent ID: 7280296

Claim:
A method for recording the contents of a digital broadcast on an exchangeable storage medium, the method comprising: writing a recording condition in said exchangeable storage medium describing a user preference and used to select at least one preferred piece of music to be recorded from the digital broadcast, said exchangeable storage medium being (1) operable to digitally record music data associated with the at least one preferred piece of music selected from the digital broadcast and (2) removably attachable to a music system including a FM tuner that is operable to audibly reproduce the at least one preferred piece of music selected from the digital broadcast using the digital music data stored on the exchangeable storage medium; receiving the digital broadcast with n channels of data multiplexed therein, each of the n channels of data including MPEG audio data; automatically checking whether said recording condition is satisfied with reference to information describing the contents of the digital broadcast included in each of the n channels of data; and when information describing the contents of the digital broadcast associated with a channel satisfies the recording condition, automatically recording the broadcast content data associated with the channel on the exchangeable storage medium.