An automatic record player for playing disc records of different sizes including a mechanism for raising and lowering and pivoting upwardly and downwardly the pick-up arm at the end of playing of a record and including a switch-off means to switch off the record player when all the records carried on the centre spindle have been played, the switch-off means including a trip latch movable from a first to a second position in dependence upon the resistance to movement of the control member of the centre spindle, the resistance being determined by the presence of at least a predetermined number of records on the spindle and the trip latch being effective in the first position to permit continued operation of the record player and being effective in the second position to actuate the switch-off means to switch off the record player.