Patent ID: 8030563

Claim:
An electronic audio playing apparatus comprising: a data storage for storing at least one audio file, wherein each of the at least one audio file comprises a control part and a main audio part, the main audio part is divided into a plurality of sections, the control part is a kind of metadata that describes the structure of the main part comprising control point data, each of which is a starting address of one of the sections of the main audio part; an audio file retrieving module for retrieving the at least one audio file in the data storage; an audio sending module for transmitting the at least one audio file to a decoder for decoding; an output unit for outputting the decoded audio file; an input receiving module for determining whether a skipping command is received from an input unit; an section determining module for determining an desired section according to the received skipping command if one of skipping command is received from the input unit; and a skipping module for obtaining the starting address of the desired section from the control point of the control part, and notifying the audio sending module to transmit the audio data to the decoder from the obtained starting address; wherein the skipping command is a command which comprises an identification (ID) number of the desired section which the user directly input through the input unit, the section determining module is further for determining whether the ID number of the desired section is greater than the total number of sections of the main audio part, if the determined ID number of the desired section is greater than a total number of sections of the main audio part, a last section of the main audio part is taken as the desired section.