Patent ID: 6957010

Claim:
An audio data transmitting method, comprising the steps of: preparing audio data, audio manager information for managing an audio title set including at least an audio title, audio title set information for accessing the audio title(s), and table-of-contents (TOC) information; formatting the audio data, the audio manager information, the audio title set information and the table-of-contents (TOC) information prepared in the preparing step, to arrange the audio data in an audio pack of each audio title, to arrange the audio manager information in an area of an audio manager, to arrange the audio title set information in an area of an audio title set and to arrange the table-of-contents (TOC) information indicative of a position of the audio data in a table-of-contents (TOC) file, wherein said table-of-contents (TOC) file is independent of said audio title set information and is divided into a plurality of TOC groups (# 1 to #n) (n denotes a natural number), wherein each of the TOC groups contains said one or more audio title(s), and wherein a musical composition containing the audio data is played back for each audio pack by using the TOC group including the audio title of the audio pack; transmitting the audio data, the audio manager information, the audio title set information and the table-of-contents (TOC) information formatted in the formatting step through a transmission medium; receiving the audio data, the audio manager information, the audio title set information and the table-of-contents (TOC) information transmitted I the transmitting step; and recording the audio data, the audio manager information, the audio title set information and the table-of-contents (TOC) information receiving in the receiving step.