a disk device for recording required information in or reproducing recorded information from a disk type information recording medium including a read - in area , a user - data area and a read - out area and capable of recording genre of audiovisual information recorded in the user - data area in a block of the read - in area as a text data , includes : an input unit for inputting instructions and information related to a recording information in and reproducing information from the disk type information recording medium ; and a control unit for executing a control for stopping reproduction of audiovisual information corresponding to a genre when kind information of the genre inputted by an inputting operation of the input unit and preliminarily recorded in a memory as genre data coincides with kind information of the genre read out from the read - in area during reproduction of information of the disk type information memory medium .