A METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STORING AUDIO-CENTERED INFORMATION BY A TABLE-OF-CONTENTS (TOC) MECHANISM AND ALSO BY A FILE-BASED ACCESS MECHANISM THROUGH A ROOT DIRECTORY THAT CONTAINS A HIGHEST LEVEL TOC DIRECTORY, AND A UNITARY STORAGE MEDIUM CONTAINING SUCH INFORMATION

摘要

Audio-entered 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.