Patent ID: 8374484

Claim:
An information recording apparatus comprising: identification unit identifying a location attribute of information to be recorded on an information recording medium, said information recording medium including a specified area and said location attribute including whether to record the information in said specified area and said location attribute corresponding to a type of information to be recorded; recording unit recording the information in said specified area on said information recording medium if said identification unit identifies that said attribute is a prescribed location attribute, and also recording an address of said specified area of said information recording medium on said information recording medium, wherein titles of content have the prescribed location attribute; detecting unit detecting continuous free areas in said specified area; comparison unit comparing a volume of said information with a total capacity of areas detected by said detecting unit; and forming unit forming, when said detecting unit detects that there is no continuous free area in said specified area capable of recording said information and said comparison unit determines that the total capacity of the areas detected by the detecting unit is greater than the volume of the information, a continuous free area capable of recording said information in said specified area by changing the location of existing information in said specified area such that the existing information is continuously recorded.