A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing
data to and/or from a recording medium having a data area in which data
are stored and a management data area in which management data for
managing these data are stored has a selecting circuit, a reading circuit,
and a transfer circuit. The selecting circuit selects, in accordance with
a user operation, album management data to be stored in the recording
medium. The album management data are stored in the management data area
and manage, as a data group, plural data stored in the data area. The
reading circuit reads the selected album management data and the data
group managed thereby. The transfer circuit transfers the read group
management data and the read data album managed thereby to an external
device.
