Method of managing lyric data of audio data recorded on a rewritable recording medium

Abstract

The present invention relates to a lyric data managing method that records lyrics associated with recorded audio data in a file separated from audio data management information called RTR_AMG (Real Time Record Audio Management) allocated for reproduction control in a rewritable recording medium, and that searches for a lyric unit written in the separate file prior to reproducing recorded audio data. The present method records lyric data of audio data recorded on a rewritable recording medium in a file separated from management information for the recorded audio data, and records search information to point to respective lyric data in the management information. Thus, the size of the management information is not increased even though lyrics of more than 1,000 audio files are recorded on a rewritable disk. As a result, system requirement of a disk device is alleviated to manage recorded audio data.

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