Patent ID: 8819457

Claim:
A method comprising: using a computer to perform the steps of: detecting that a recorded medium including media content has been inserted into a media reader; copying the media content from the recorded medium to a storage device without a user command to copy the media content, wherein copying includes: tracking failed attempts to read one or more sectors of a particular cell in a bad sector counter, including: in response to encountering an unreadable sector, incrementing the bad sector counter for the particular cell; and in response to encountering a readable sector, clearing the bad sector counter for the particular cell; in response to the bad sector counter exceeding a threshold value for the particular cell: marking the particular cell as a bad cell, such that subsequent copying of the particular cell is not attempted; clearing the bad sector counter; and skipping to a next cell to continue reading the media content; and in response to a user command to play back the media content, retrieving and playing back the media content from the storage device, wherein at least a portion of the media content is played back from the storage device concurrently with the media content being copied from the recorded medium.