Patent ID: 6918003

Claim:
An information reproducing apparatus reproducing information of an information recording medium in which a record area is divided into a plurality of data areas, data are recorded for each of the divided data areas, management information relating to the data recording is recorded in predetermined management information areas, and the management information is updated and recorded in a new management information area every time a predetermined data recording is completed, said information reproducing apparatus comprising: a receiving part receiving, from an external device, an obtaining request for the management information, said obtaining request including designation of a specific management information area; a management information obtaining part obtaining the management information relating to the data recording from the specific management information area designated in the received obtaining request; and a reporting part reporting, to the external device, the management information relating to the data recording obtained from the designated specific management information area, and wherein the record area includes at least one session having a plurality of tracks as the data areas, and the management information relating to the data recording recorded in each of the management information areas includes all track information of the session and all session information of sessions recorded before the session.