RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recording medium which can attain the transfer rate higher than that of a sub-data of at least conventional compact disk and also variably attain further higher transfer rate and a reproducing apparatus which can variably change over the transfer rate of sub-data when such recording medium is replayed. SOLUTION: In an optical disk, a typical album information for all disks and disk information of each disk when the recording contents are recorded to a plurality of disks are recorded to the Master TOC of data zone and track information in relation to each program recorded to the disk is recorded in the area TOC (Area TOC-1) and/or area TOC (Area TOC-2).