Disclosed herein is a disc playback apparatus with a built-in disc drive which performs hand-close process. The control unit 60 has the A/D input port P which is given the voltage of the terminal of the loading motor 78, after voltage reduction by the dividing resistors R1 and R2. It acquires the voltage applied to the A/D input port P at intervals of 20 ms if the disc tray 10 is in its completely ejected state and compares the acquired voltage with a predefined threshold value. If the acquired voltage is lower than the predefined threshold value, it clears the count, and if the acquired voltage is higher than the predefined value, it increments the count. If the count over 5, the control unit 60 delivers control signals to the driver circuit 88, thereby driving the loading motor to retract the disc tray 10.