A recording/reproducing apparatus and method and program are preferably applicable to a reproducing apparatus for reproducing externally acquired music data for example. The recording/reproducing apparatus has a recording device configured to record content data to a storage medium; a reproduction device configured to reproduce the content data from the storage medium; an image data storage device configured to store image data corresponding to each of a plurality of pieces of attribute information; an attribute information detector configured to detect, if no image data is related with the content data, attribute information related with the content data; an image data detector configured to detect image data corresponding the attribute information detected by the attribute information detector from the image data storage device; and a controller configured to control such that the image data detected by the image data detector be outputted at least during reproduction of the content data by the reproduction device.