METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR STORING INFORMATION IN PARTICULAR THE AUDIBLE ONE BY MEANS OF TOC TABLE AND MAIN DIRECTORY CONTAINING HIGHEST LEVEL OF TOC DIRECTORY AND UNIFORM CARRIER THEREFOR

摘要

Audio-centered information is stored on a unitary medium by a Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism for specifying an actual configuration of various audio items on the medium. In addition to the TOC mechanism a file-based access mechanism to the information is assigned through a ROOT directory that contains a highest level TOC directory pointing at various audio items.