The invention provides an information processing apparatus and an information processing method. The information processing apparatus comprises a storage section for storing a plurality of content data and the characteristics data of the plurality of content data, and a creation section for creating a moving image having movement according to the characteristics data of each of the plurality of content data and for creating a list screen of the plurality of content data including the moving image for each of the plurality of content data. The plurality of content data comprise content data except for the current playing target.