Patent ID: 8280223

Claim:
A method for a media player to play back a content item recorded on packaged media, the content item being distributed over a packaged media set comprising a plurality of the packaged media, with some portions of the content item stored on different packaged media in the packaged media set from other portions of the content item, the method comprising: reading code recorded on one of the packaged media loaded in the media player, the code including locator data identifying on which packaged medium in the packaged media set a portion of the content item is stored; performing instructions under control of a processor system in accordance with the code to: query a data storage device to determine if a marker is stored in the data storage device; control playback of the content item, including controlling navigation to a portion of the content item in response to a stored marker and in response to the locator data; and store in the data storage device a marker in response to termination of playback by a user, the stored marker associated with a most recently played portion of the content item.