Patent ID: 8213285

Claim:
A digital audio data recording device comprising: reproduction means for reproducing, from a CD on which digital audio data and a TOC managing the digital audio data are recorded, the digital audio data and the TOC; recording means for recording the digital audio data on an other recording medium, and generating control data from the TOC and recording the control data in a control table of the other recording medium; control means for controlling, when recording the digital audio data to be reproduced by the reproduction means on the other recording medium by the recording means, permission/prohibition of recording of the digital audio data to be reproduced by the reproduction means, based on the control data generated by the recording means from the TOC and recorded in the control table; and display means for displaying an alert that the digital audio data to be reproduced by the reproduction means is already recorded in the other recording medium along with displaying information including a title regarding the CD in a case the control data generated from the TOC is recorded in the control table, the display means displaying the alert before the recording means records the digital audio data on the other recording medium.