Magnetically recordable label for mechanically-defined information-bearing discs

Claim 1

The combination of a programmable record and a cooperatively arranged record player in which the record, when programmed, provides instructions to the record player for commanding the record player to play back the record in a programmed sequence, the record player comprising a read/write head for creating programming instructions on the record and for receiving the programming instructions from the record, a transducing means cooperable with the record for playback of primary information contained by the record apart from the programming instructions, and a logic/memory means for receiving the programming instructions from the read/write head and for directing the operation of the transducing means, the record also comprising an outer annular region and a central annular region, the outer region containing primary information that is transducible by the transducing means on the record player, the central region comprising machine readable means cooperable with the read/write head for receiving and storing the programming instructions, such instructions being descriptive of the location on the outer annular region of a least one discrete portion of the primary information.