Compact disk and high-speed search method thereof and recording method

Abstract

A compact disk, a high-speed searching method of the compact disk, and a recording method which corresponds to the high-speed searching method is provided. The compact disk includes a lead-in area and e program area. The lead-in area contains table-of-contents information which includes the number of recording tracks recorded on the disk and address information relating to each track. The program area contains index-table information which includes index numbers and starting addresses for a plurality of programs recorded on the disk. Furthermore, the plurality of programs are recorded in the program area according to its corresponding index number. Specifically, the programs are recorded from the innermost circumference to the outermost circumference of the disk in a tree structure based on the index numbers. By recording programs on the compact disk in the above order, a search through several thousands of song programs can be performed at high speed by gradually decreasing the distance in which an optical pickup device moves as the number of digits relating to the indexed addresses of the programs are increasingly input.