US05392265 | Recording and reproducing apparatus which calculates and displays management information of recorded segments | |
Assignee | Sony Corporation | |
Assign./Filed | Feb. 21, 1995/ May 17, 1993 | |
Inventors | Takezawa; Masayuki | |
Summary | Use of TOC information to display playing time of a track, total playing time, and recording time remaining. Includes careful description of TOC contents. | |
Abstract | A recording and/or reproducing apparatus records and/or reproduces a recording medium on which musical information is recorded discretely together with management information for managing the recorded musical information. The apparatus calculates, based on the management information, a playing time of each musical piece, a total playing time of all of the musical pieces recorded on the recording medium, a remaining time for which the recording medium can be further recorded, and a remaining number of musical pieces which can be further recorded onto the recording medium, and displays the result of the calculation. |