audio cd skips diy fix req

fender62

fender62

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audio cd skips diy fix req/ fixed now

i have an audio cd that i bought used and one of the tracks skips
if thats the right word although it sound more than a skip the track wont play i have heard that you can repair cd's ie with car polish or similar stuff thats slightly abrasive although im not sure
i cant take the cd back so im stuck with it so ill try anything to fix it
what about brasso i have tried the normal cd cleaner you buy
the spay stuff alchohol type didnt work
 
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The-poacher

The-poacher

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If U are going to try brasso is supposed to be the answer (maybe) but back the CD up 1st or download the U/S track from say KaZaa & remake the CD
 
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LTR12101B

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Skips in what?

If it's in your audio player, try reading it in the PC - or in the PC, try the other drive if you have a pair of DVD and CD-RW.

RIP with EAC secure mode, and copy.

Brasso, or even toothpaste, can be used to polish out minor scratches, but NEVER use any harsh cleaner on the label side...

I forgot - hold up to the light, if you can see any shining through pinholes or scratches, you have damage to the reflective layer which is not possible to repair or improve.

The only hope with that kind of damage is "best effort" reading using secure mode, and low speed or automatic speed reduction.

In rare cases, burst-mode reading at 1x can occasionally work better, as the drives own error handling will be best in this mode - compare with a secure mode extraction. It may be a quirk in some drives, that they consider a 1x continuous stream to be "digital play", and apply interpolation/masking at levels which may be acceptable.
 
fender62

fender62

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someone mentioned using tcut car polish and then a waxy pledge
type polish although im reluctant just a thought
 
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LTR12101B

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Another possibility, for a CD which is scratched or abrasion-fogged on the playing side (underneath), is the use of a product called CDefender - these are protective films, which attach using a conformal coating (which is supposed to fill the scratches). The CD must be CLEAN before applying, as this does nothing for fingerprints, or other surface contaminants - other than sealing them in! (though it is supposed to peel off, as it is non-setting)

Never used them myself, but saw them demonstrated at a show.


And to repeat (as a friend did this!) NEVER clean the top!
The reflective layer has very little protection from the top, and any damage will be made worse. It does not CARE about fingerprints here!
 
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scarecrow

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Agree with the above- the best you can use is Brasso. If it won't work, it won't harm either. Toothpaste is absolutely harmless, but it won't help at all, either (unless you rip the disk right after the application, and burn it back.
And EAC @ secure mode will rip any CD that doesn't have a flaw so obvious as eg a hole. If the drive is stressed too much, you can even order EAC to tell the drive to take five every XXX minutes, so it will cool down.
My worst ripping time (out of a badly pressed CD, not scratched or dirty, so no other cure could be found- just ripping it and burning it back...) was some 6.5 hours. The copy definitely sounds better than the original, and is ripped within 4-5 minutes.
 
fender62

fender62

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in the end i tried brasso toothpase and bicarb i found a combination of brasso and bicarb worked but not for deep scratches though i think if i had one of those rubber polishers they use in the dentists would get it out being very careful the scratch i have was deliberate by a cretin who lives in my house
that was done with a hard ballpoint pen tip ouch i did manage to
get other cd's working fine where the scratches were finer though so i wouldnt rush out to buy stuff thats suppose to do the same thing that i did with ordinary stuff i have around the house
i couldnt even back up the worst cd the pen job one it did copy it but skips were still there pity
 
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