habits of the user is illustrated in fig7 in this example audio track 1 has the highest probability of selection accordingly the media system 100 may begin preemptive recording of a cd with audio track 1 the audio track having the next highest probability of selection in this example is audio track 8 consequently the media system 100 may continue preemptive recording of a cd with audio track 8 once the preemptive recording of audio track 1 is completed once audio track 8 has been preemptively recorded the preemptive recording process continues with audio tracks having successively lower selection probabilities audio tracks having lower selection probabilities are preemptively recorded after audio tracks having higher selection probabilities until all audio tracks have been preemptively recorded a similar process sequence may be followed for complete recording of the audio tracks to the primary storage device 160 the media on the primary storage device 160 may be stored using one or more lossless or lossy compression formats lossy compression formats may be used in those instances in which the number of media files per storage unit on the primary storage device 160 i e audio files megabyte is to be maximized in these instances lossy compression formats such as the mp3 format may be used encoding of the audio file to the appropriate format may be executed by for example processor 102 during the recording process as each audio track is transferred to the primary storage device 160 alternatively each audio track may be recorded to a corresponding media file in a lossless compression format and subsequently encoded to a lossy format to reduce the amount of storage space utilized by the file the particular lossy and or lossless compression format that is to be used by the media system 100 to.