Management of recordable area for TOC (table of contents) and recording or recording/reproducing apparatus for performing recording action based on the same TOC information.

摘要

Recordable areas are recorded such that, if a recordable area (T4(1)-T4(4), T5(1)-T5(2)) exists on the outermost position of the disc (1), it is headed, and the other recordable areas (T4(1)-T4(4), T5(1)-T5(2)) are linked from the inner peripheral side in order of address, to be thus managed. With this method, the audio-recording is executed such that the segment division is minimized and the distance between segments is minimized. This makes it possible to shorten the segment access time and eliminate the access in reproducing, and hence to prevent the sound-interruption and the lowering of shock-proof in reproducing action. <IMAGE>