Patent ID: 7624090

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: storing means for temporarily storing content data that is to be recorded subsequently to an information recording medium which is currently not loaded, and for temporarily storing, in association with the content data, identification information for identifying the information recording medium; reading means for reading, in response to the information recording medium being loaded, identification information for identifying said information recording medium, the identification information being read from the loaded information recording medium; first comparing means for comparing the read out identification information with the temporarily stored identification information associated with the temporarily stored content data; recording means for recording the stored content data onto the loaded information recording medium if the comparison by said comparing means reveals that the read out identification information matches the temporarily stored identification information associated with the temporarily stored content data; acquiring means for acquiring respective related information for each one of a plurality of previously loaded information recording mediums, the related information for a given one of the plurality of previously loaded information recording mediums including respective identification information for that information recording medium and a list of entries recorded on that information recording medium; display controlling means for controlling display of at least part of the acquired related information; selecting means for selecting, from the displayed related information, an entry from the list of entries recorded on a particular one of the plurality of previously loaded information recording mediums; said reading means, in response to another information recording medium being loaded, reading from the another loaded information recording medium further identification information for identifying the another information recording medium; second comparing means for comparing the further identification information read out by said reading means with the respective identification information associated with the particular one of the plurality of previously loaded information recording mediums; and notifying means for, in response to the comparison by said second comparing means indicating that the read out identification information does not match the respective identification information associated with the particular one of the plurality of previously loaded information recording mediums, prompting a user to load a further one of the plurality of previously loaded information recording mediums whose respective identification information is associated with the selected related information.