There is provided an audio reproducing apparatus and a music selection method which can quickly search for desired music data from a large number of music data recorded on a recording medium such as a hard disk. When a rotary encoder is rotated at a low speed, a display mode is set to a low speed search mode, and a title of music data at a position being searched is displayed on a display unit. When the rotary encoder is rotated at a high speed, the display mode is changed to a high speed search mode, information common to music data at a position being searched and successive music data, such as a folder name of a folder storing these music data, an album name, an artist name, and/or a recorded date, is displayed on the display unit.