Patent ID: 8145999

Claim:
A method for deleting audio elements, each audio element having a graphical component, the method comprising the steps of: receiving user input; responsive to the user input, identifying first audio element to be deleted; determining a visual representation including an audio indicator and an audio gauge corresponding to the first audio element; removing the visual representation of the first audio element from a display; deleting the first audio element from memory; determining a second audio element that has an ordinal value greater than the first audio element; retrieving and decrementing the ordinal value of the second element determined to have an ordinal value greater than the first audio element; modifying a link object including at least one of a reference to the first audio element and a reference to the second audio element; and removing, from the display, a visual representation of a link as a connector between the visual representation of the first audio element and a visual representation of the second audio element, wherein a spatial location of the visual representation of the second audio element is independent of a temporal sequence or relationship to the first audio element and the visual representation of the first audio element.