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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 1997
Filed:
May. 03, 1995
Frank P Mimick, Watauga, TX (US);
Daniel W Staudacher, Denton, TX (US);
Tandy Corporation, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the invention, a method for programing or editing, or both, the order of performance of digitally recorded information tracks, such as an audio recording, stored sequentially in an appropriate medium. The method allows a user to program or edit, via keystrokes, a program or sequence of tracks to be played. An apparatus for playing information tracks queued to be replayed in a predetermined sequence includes a key pad, which is used to enter commands and numeric information to establish a program queue, a display, which is used to display program events, and an interface processor, coupled to the key pad and the display, which is used to control the commands received from and sent to the key pad and to send display messages to the display. The apparatus also includes a control processor, coupled to the interface processor, which establishes from information stored on a medium in a sequential order, an ordered sequence of information tracks. The apparatus further includes reading circuitry, coupled to the control processor, for reading the information tracks and converting the information tracks into a form different than as stored in the medium according to the ordered sequence in which they are stored.