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Peter Blackburn Stewart

Scott D Quinn

Eric John Straub

Frederick J DeWitt

Richard P Jernigan, Iv

A method and apparatus for storing compressed file data stored on a disk. The method includes an improved format for the Compressed Volume File (CVF), and more specifically, 10 an improved format for the MDFAT data structure stored within the CVF. The improved format includes using an additional byte for maintaining each entry in the MDFAT data structure which increases the number of sectors within the Sector Heap that can be addressed and accessed. The improved format further allows compressed clusters to be stored in fragments in various portions of vacant storage space located throughout the Sector Heap. The new format for the MDFAT data structure includes a bit that identifies whether each cluster is being stored in fragments. The method stores the locations of each of the fragments in a Fragment Pointer List located in the first sector of the first fragment.

Method and apparatus for storing compressed file data on a disk where

A method and system for dynamically converting audio data into a standard format. The method and system also provides for using a directory hierarchy to specify a fidelity level and dynamically generating the audio data at the specified fidelity level. When a drive is loaded with, for example, a CD ROM containing raw audio data, the system generates a directory hierarchy for the drive. The directory hierarchy contains sub-directories corresponding to various fidelity characteristics. For example, the system may generate a sub-directory corresponding to audio data stored in stereo format and another sub-directory corresponding to audio data stored in mono format. The system also generates a file entry in sub-directories for each track of the CD ROM. For example, the stereo sub-directory may contain a file entry for track 1 of the CD ROM and the mono sub-directory also may contain a file entry for track 1. The file in the stereo sub-directory represents the audio data in storage and the file in the mono sub-directory represents the audio data in mono. When accessing a file at a specified fidelity level (as indicated by the directory pathname), the system reads raw audio data from the CD ROM and converts the raw audio data to the fidelity level specified by the pathname.

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