A METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STORING AUDIO-CENTERED INFORMATION BY A TABLE-OF-CONTENTS (TOC) MECHANISM AND ALSO BY A FILE-BASED ACCESS MECHANISM THROUGH A ROOT DIRECTORY THAT CONTAINS A HIGHEST LEVEL TOC DIRECTORY, AND A UNITARY STORAGE MEDIUM CONTAINING SUCH INFORMATION

摘要

Audio-entered information is stored on a unitarymedium by a Table-of-Contents (TOC) mechanism forspecifying an actual configuration of various audio itemson the medium. In addition to the TOC mechanisma file-based access mechanism to the information isassigned through a ROOT directory that contains a highestlevel TOC directory pointing at various audio items.