Patent ID: 7190646

Claim:
An information recording and reproducing apparatus comprising: a first reproducing device for reproducing audio information from a first information record medium, in which the audio information is recorded; a recording device for recording the reproduced audio information into a second information record medium in which random access is possible; a second reproducing device for reproducing the audio information recorded in said second information record medium; and a controlling device for setting a recording speed when recording the audio information into said second information record medium and a reproducing speed when reproducing the audio information from said second information record medium such that the recording speed is equal to or higher than the reproducing speed, and controlling said second reproducing device and said recording device so as to simultaneously record a portion of said audio information to said second information record medium at the set recording speed and reproduce another portion of said audio information by reproducing said another portion of said audio information from said second recording medium at the set reproducing speed, wherein said controlling device controls said recording device so as to record information indicative of the portion of the audio information, which is being recorded at a time of stopping a recording operation of recording the audio information into said second information record medium, into said second information record medium and then stop the recording operation, when the recording operation is to be stopped in a middle of recording the audio information into said second information record medium.