Device for bifurcated display of replay menus separating digital media files by file formats

A device for the bifurcated display of replay menus separating digital media files by file formats, comprising:

• management means which manages all of the files stored upon a medium by separating the files into first files in which image data is recorded in a first format and second files in which data is recorded in a second format other than the first format, the first format being a format in which it is defined that a list of the first files is displayed before replay of a first file of the first files and after replay of the first file has ended, and that to interrupt the replay of the first file while it is being replayed and to replay a second file of the second files is prohibited;
• output means which, on the basis of the file management by the management means, creates and outputs at least one of a first menu screen upon which a list of the first files is shown, and a second menu screen upon which a list of the second files is shown;
• selection means which receives a selection of one of the first files to be replayed from the first menu screen, or receives a selection of one of the second files to be replayed from the second menu screen;
• replay means which replays the first file or the second file which has been selected by the selection means;
• and
• initial setting means upon which is set whether or not to prohibit changing over from the first menu screen to the second menu screen by the output means,
• wherein the output means creates and outputs, together with the first menu screen, a tab image showing a tab for changing over from the first menu screen to the second menu screen,
• wherein when receiving a predetermined actuation input during outputting the first menu screen and the tab image, the output means changes over from the first menu screen to the second menu screen, and
• wherein when the replay means is replaying the first file, the output means prohibits the output of the second menu screen.