There is provided an optical pickup controlling system for an optical disc player. The optical disc player is adapted to direct a laser beam on to an optical disc which contains a first information recorded thereon in terms of information pits formed on information tracks and a second information recorded thereon in terms of shapes of information tracks. Here, the laser beam may have a first beam spot or a second beam spot, the second beam spot is for reproducing the second information, the second beam spot is narrower in a direction orthogonal to the information track direction than the first beam spot which is for reproducing or recording the first information. In detail, the first beam spot is in an elliptical shape having its shorter axis arranged in the information track direction, the second beam spot is in another elliptical shape having its shorter axis arranged in a direction orthogonal to the information track direction.