How To Tell?

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 26 Oct 2004 1:09 pm

How can you tell if it's the CD or CD player
causing all this skipping?

I've played a handful of CD's on this newish
NERO CD player/burner, and they all seem to
clip at one point or another. Then, other times they play OK.

I've taken these same CDs out with me in the van and the same prognosis seems to occur -
sometimes OK, other times skip-ta-ma-loo.

Any ideas here, boys and girls?

Some CDs are sort of old and have some noticeable marks on their surfaces.

Thanks all for any suggestions [outside of suicide].

Chip

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 26 Oct 2004 2:05 pm

Chip, I'm sorry but the prognosis is bad, very bad....

No, but actually whatcha wanna do is to find some of them little soft chamois rags/towels that they sell at the local opticians shops for cleaning your eyeglasses. They're great for cleaning the smudges off a CD that may be causing the skipperoos. I've had to use them even on brand new disks right out the back page of a new textbook. Just remember no round and round the disk motions with the cloth. Clean/Wipe from the center out radially.[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 26 October 2004 at 03:06 PM.]

Steinar Gregertsen · Post by **Steinar Gregertsen** » 26 Oct 2004 2:06 pm

One thing to keep in mind is to not burn the CDs at too high speed. While burning at 24x or 48x speed is okay for data CDs, I never burn audio CDs faster than 8x, 12x if I'm in a real hurry.
High speed burning is one factor that can cause CDs to randomly skip on some players.

If it's an old CD, cleaning it with a soft cloth dipped in luke-warm water can help. I worked at a pub for a while and we had to 'wash' the CDs quite often since they got dirty real fast,- they would skip and jump like crazy if we didn't.

Steinar

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Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 26 Oct 2004 2:06 pm

Some CD media is low quality, others are better.

If you follow the the AVF folks, you will find out there is a big difference in the brand name CD media.

I only use Maxwell stuff..............
No failures !!

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Les Pierce · Post by **Les Pierce** » 26 Oct 2004 7:24 pm

They make devices that can automatically polish the scratches out, and leave your CD's just like new. I think WalMart even has one for sale, just can't remember the name, right at this moment.

Les

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 27 Oct 2004 5:12 am

Thanks everyone. All your points are well
taken.

What I gather, it seems, is the problem is really in the CD itself.

And wow! Skipping-away right out of a brand new package

Chip

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 27 Oct 2004 5:40 am

I have two CD burners in my PC, a 48X and a 52X. Several commercial CD's exhibited the skipping behavior in the faster one, but not in the slower one.

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 27 Oct 2004 6:35 am

We have a subscription with a provider of CD movies.....many of them "skip" and I have presumed that it is because they are well-used and innapropriately handled!

I think that from now on I will "wipe down" all CD's and hope to remove the contamination from previous viewers!

www.genejones.com [This message was edited by Gene Jones on 27 October 2004 at 08:47 AM.]