Patent ID: 7773853

Claim:
A recording method of recording a file to be recorded and management information for the file into a user area of a recording medium so that the file and the management information form a set, the recording method comprising: switching recording format of the file and the management information with respect to the user area in accordance with an attribute of the file; recording, onto the recording medium, management information in a previous recording format when start of recording in a new recording format is instructed, and closing the recorded file in the previous recording format to start recording in the new recording format; and erasing a unit file before management information corresponding to the unit file is recorded onto the recording medium by the recording step for a management information recording area, wherein the erasing step discriminates whether a last VTS (Video Title Set) recorded on the recording medium is closed to erase the last unit file recorded on the recording medium by instruction of a user only when the VTS is not closed.