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I have a favorite Springsteen cd that is skipping on track 1 & 2

Is that the inner or outer section?

Is the date on the upper or lower face?

Can I do anything about it?

CD's are the opposite of records and start on the inside and move out.

The data is on the bottom (shiny) side.

Try some eyeglass cleaner and a cloth. If that doesn't work, you can buy a disc doctor and that will cut a thin layer of plastic off the bottom and hopefully fix the problem--but I would recommend taking it to a DVD rental place or a used video game store. They will usually have far higher quality machines.

Any rubbing/polishing you do should be across the playing surface... perpindicular to the outer edge.

I bought a thing similar to this at Wal Mart or Best buy (can't remember which)

Clean and Repair Damaged Discs

It works pretty well.

There are times that I do not feel bad downloading music. This would be one such case.

You have paid for one CD, paid the commissions that everyone makes so you are not stealing. I must have paid for 6-8 copies of albums like "Dark side of the moon" and on on. Finally had one CD ruined at a party and gave up and downloaded the puppy. End of buying new copies of this one album.

Download a good copy, burn it to disk and keep the original data on a couple of hard drives for the future when this CD gets old.

Many video game stores have a resurfacing machine. My friend owns a store and makes good use out the resurfacer. she charges $5/disc (6th one free), does it in-house, no waiting time. I know some shops send them out to have them resurfaced. But there should be someone in your area who has one. If the skip is due to a small scratch, the laser can't read thru the scratched plastic to see the 'pits' on the aluminum sheet inside the CD. If that's the case, a resurfacer will buff off the top layer of the plastic, essentially relevelling the surface so the laser can see thru it without scattering.

I've had a Skip Doctor for about 5 years... I always follow the directions and it has never failed me. A significant number of my CD's were bought used, and any time one has skipped, I run it through.

I even use it on rented DVD's before we watch them if the playing surface looks funky.

I've probably restored 20-30 CD's and DVD's with it. Zero problems.

I'm completely befuddled at some of the customer reviews at Amazon... those peeps must not be following the directions.

(Tried to post the link to Amazon, but it's not showing up... what's up with that?)

Yeah I have one of those hand cranking resurfacers. I used it on a ps2 game and it worked perfectly.

Sometimes a skip turns out to be the optics needing cleaning in the player.

I fix my own all the time. All you need is a bench grinder with a ragwheel. Most places like Sears have compounds like rouge, tripoli, and plastic polishes. Turn the grinder on (you can use a drill if you don't have one) and load the wheel up with compound. Use the plastic one, but you can use others if you don't have one. Use alternating pressure against the wheel to remove scratches and then polish with light pressure. Works everytime.

http://www.rpadistribution.co.uk/mmR...ss_section.jpg

The data is stored on a metalic layer under the label but not on the bottom bottom. There's that layer of acryllic in between you and the data pits. Thus, if you grind down enough of that acryllic layer you can get the scratches out and see the data again.


Pretty well designed media IMO.

Unfortunately, after several hundred times of polishing cd's on a disk doctor and stuffing them into a 52X cdrom... they can explosively disassemble themselves. That's experience talking.

thanks guys, that helps.

A lot of times they will copy to itunes just fine then you can re-burn it. I had cd's that would not play but copied just fine.