Patent ID: 8289823

Claim:
A recording method of recording information on a recording medium including a reproduction-only data layer and a recording/reproduction data layer, the recording method comprising the steps of: recording management information indicating that a program on the reproduction-only data layer has performed recording, in a first playlist under a PLAYLIST directory on the recording/reproduction data layer by the program on the reproduction-only data layer; and recording management information indicating that a user has performed recording, in a second playlist under the PLAYLIST directory by the user, wherein a file name of the first playlist is a character string â€œabcdeâ€ representing a 5-digit integer A, a file name of the second playlist is a character string â€œvwxyzâ€ representing a 5-digit integer Z, the 5-digit integer A is equal to or larger than a constant S, and the 5-digit integer Z is smaller than the constant S.