Content Reproducing Apparatus and Content Reproducing Method

A content reproducing apparatus comprising:

• an output portion that outputs a reproducing signal of content;
• a selection acceptance portion that accepts a selection of a content input source;
• a memory portion that stores automated reproducing setting data that associates content input sources with necessariness and unnecessariness of automated reproduction of content;
• and
• at least one processing circuit configured as:
• a judgment portion that performs, when the selection acceptance portion accepts the selection of the content input source, a first judgment process that judges whether or not automated reproduction is necessary on content that is inputted from a currently selected input source, based on the automated reproducing setting data;
• and
• an automated reproducing control portion that starts outputting, at the output portion, a reproducing signal on the content that is inputted from the currently selected input source, when the judgment portion judges that automated reproduction of the content is necessary.