Abstract: A audio data collection and management system is provided for extracting music data from an optical media and managing the music data. The system is configured to extract at least a portion of an initial track of music data at an extracting rate that is different than the recording rate. The system simultaneously records the extracted portion of the initial track of music data to a storage media at the extracting rate while performing the extracting. The system is configured to be implemented in an automobile, a home stereo system, or a personal computer system.

Abstract: A method and a system are provided to improve storage space utilization in a file management system with a fixed number of clusters without increasing the number of volumes visible to the user. This is accomplished by merging together multiple logical partitions created on a physical volume into a single virtual partition. This allows for the use of smaller, more efficient logical partitions while still presenting to the user/application a single large volume. As a result, the user is able to deal with a single volume, greatly reducing the burden of remembering on which volume each file is located, but, at the same time, the user is able to reap the benefits of the efficient storage allocation deriving from a reduced cluster size.

Abstract: A method and a system are provided to improve storage space utilization in a file management system with a fixed number of clusters without increasing the number of volumes visible to the user. This is accomplished by merging together multiple logical partitions created on a physical volume into a single virtual partition. This allows for the use of smaller, more efficient logical partitions while still presenting to the user/application a single large volume. As a result, the user is able to deal with a single volume, greatly reducing the burden of remembering on which volume each file is located, but, at the same time, the user is able to rip the benefits of the efficient storage allocation deriving from a reduced cluster size.