Patent ID: 7505378

Claim:
A disk reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing data that is recorded on a DVD-Audio, comprising: a data reproducing unit configured to reproduce the data; a displaying unit; and a controlling unit being: configured to control the data reproducing unit to reproduce in seriatim respective data in one or a plurality of subgroups belonging to the group when a group of data is reproduced; configured to determine whether or not the subgroup is a last subgroup in the group, after data in each subgroup belonging to the group is reproduced; configured to determine whether or not a menu display forced is indicated from management data of the subgroup when the subgroup is the last subgroup in the group; configured to form a menu screen based on menu data in management data of the DVD-Audio and control the display unit to display the menu screen when the menu display forced is indicated; configured to determine whether or not the menu data is present from the management data of the DVD-Audio, when the menu display forced is not indicated, and configured to form the menu screen based on the menu data and control the display unit to display the menu screen when the menu data is present.