According to the inventive method for inserting information into an audio signal, a time multiplex method is combined with a code multiplex method in order to preprocess the information which is to be inserted into the audio signal. During a time multiplex method, a spreading is carried out (22, 24) with two different data sequences in order to be able to distinguish a first time slot from additional time slots. The code multiplex channels are added (26) and weighted (26, 28, 30, 32) while taking into account a psychoacoustic masking threshold of the audio signal, whereupon the weighted code multiplex signal is combined (34) with the audio signal. The time slot of the information channel is used while detecting the information that is inserted into the audio signal in order to synchronize the second information channel which had been spread with a data sequence differing from the data sequence for the other time slots. This results in the provision of a very reliable data transmission in a first information channel as well as the provision of a data transmission with a high transmission rate in the second transmission channel.