A content reproducing apparatus comprising: an output portion (6,7) configured to output a reproducing signal of content; a selector configured to select a content input source, the content reproducing apparatus being connectable to a plurality of content input sources; a selection acceptance portion configured to accept the selection of the content input source; a memory portion configured to store automated reproducing setting data that associates content input sources, reproducing forms of the input content, and information indicating the necessariness or unnecessariness of automated reproduction of content with each other; a judgment portion configured to perform, 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 configured to start outputting, at the output portion (6,7), 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, wherein the judgment portion is configured to perform a second judgment process that judges whether or not automated reproduction is necessary on the content that is inputted from the selected input source, based on a reproducing form of the content; and is configured to determine, when the selection acceptance portion accepts the selection of the content input source, which process to perform, the first judgment process or the second judgment process, to judge whether or not automated reproduction is necessary on the content that is inputted from the currently selected input source. an output portion (6,7) configured to output a reproducing signal of content; a selector configured to select a content input source, the content reproducing apparatus being connectable to a plurality of content input sources; a selection acceptance portion configured to accept the selection of the content input source; a memory portion configured to store automated reproducing setting data that associates content input sources, reproducing forms of the input content, and information indicating the necessariness or unnecessariness of automated reproduction of content with each other; a judgment portion configured to perform, 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 configured to start outputting, at the output portion (6,7), 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, wherein the judgment portion is configured to perform a second judgment process that judges whether or not automated reproduction is necessary on the content that is inputted from the selected input source, based on a reproducing form of the content; and is configured to determine, when the selection acceptance portion accepts the selection of the content input source, which process to perform, the first judgment process or the second judgment process, to judge whether or not automated reproduction is necessary on the content that is inputted from the currently selected input source.