Method and apparatus for recording compressed audio data on recording medium and method for transferring compressed audio data
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorHiraku Inoue
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Abstract
A dubbing system in which a plurality of music programs are compressed in a predetermined manner and stored in a server and in which a client selects a desired one of the music programs which is transferred in a compressed state to the client for dubbing on a recording medium. The dubbing system is subservient to the selection of musical programs by the client since a portion of the compressed music program can be expanded and monitored on the client side so that the client can check to see that the music program is the desired one. Moreover, the audio program to be dubbed next can be monitored.
Claims16
A dubbing system, comprising:
- storage means for storing a plurality of audio programs compressed by predetermined compression processing;
- selection means for selecting a desired one of said compressed audio programs from the plurality of audio programs;
- transferring means for transferring the compressed audio program selected by the selection means;
- expanding means for expanding one of said plurality of audio programs supplied from the storage means;
- recording means for recording the predetermined audio program supplied from the transferring means;
- and
- monitoring means for monitoring the expanded audio program supplied from the expanding means while the predetermined audio program is being recorded on a recording medium.
A dubbing method, comprising the steps of:
- selecting a desired compressed audio program from a plurality of compressed audio programs stored in a memory;
- receiving the desired compressed audio program from a server as selected by the step of selecting;
- expanding one of the plurality of selected compressed audio programs supplied from the server and producing an expanded audio program;
- recording the compressed audio program supplied from the server;
- and
- monitoring the expanded audio program while the selected compressed audio program is being recorded on a recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.