Problems With CD's

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Has anyone had problems with their CD players and certain disks?

I've just got rid of an old CD player because it wasn't reading disks, some it wouldn't read at all, others (in fact most) it played from track 1, but you couldn't play starting from any other track - I assumed it was the lazer going (I've had it 5 years or so)

Bought a new player on the weekend, disks generally seem OK but still two or three disks (ones that I really had problems with on the old player) won't play.
These are newish disks and are clean

They play OK on my Portable though.

Anyone any ideas/suggestions??
Its a brand new reasonably expensive CD player, but I don't really want the hastle of taking it back.....

Ta.

― actionjackson, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Obvious question: have you tried the 2 or 3 problem discs in another player?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes - They play OK in my portable (it seems to struggle to read them, but does eventually)

But a friend of mine told me that lazers in portable CD players are less (more???) sensitive.... What this actually means I'm not sure

― actionjackson, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there any possibility that these CD's might be pirate copies?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry - didn't read the line about the portable. Carry on.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope,
They're all proper.
One's 'Low', ones those 2 wierd Anti-Folk girls whose name escapes me (the one with the French title), and the other one is Autechre remix of the Seafeel tune.

I may come across others thats the worrying thing, I'd rather know now when I can take it back (from Richer sounds) and just get a replacement than get more problems in 2/3 months and have to get them to repair it.

― actionjackson, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Does the new player play CDr's OK?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep,

No problems with CDR's (or at least the ones I've tried)

― actionjackson, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

CD players BREAK. it's inevitable. not one CD player i have ever owned has worked over 4-5 years. they are faulty devices.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Blimey, I don't think I've had a CD player last any less than 4-5 years; the main one in my living room's must have been going for nearly 10 years now, with only one minor repair!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I was about to say. My parents' Sony model has been running for sixteen years now without a problem.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the death of only the 2nd CD player I've had in 16 years - But thats not the point, the point is CD's that wouldn't play on my old knackered player, still don't play on my brand new player

― actionjackson, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Take them in to the place that you bought the Cd player .. See if they'll play on any of the equipment in the store ... If not, you know where the fault lies .. If they do, tell them you want to exchange the player you just bought.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had two decks bust on me, both kenwood (not expensive, but not totally shitty either at the time). the lasers go out on them after a while and depending on the cd, sometimes they get static-y or skip for no reason. When this happens it's just time to get a new player.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, as dave says - for your peace of mind, it sounds like you should check with the store with a view to an exchange.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I not right in saying that the actual lasers in the vast majority of domestic CD players all come from Philips?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 3 June 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I think most CD transports are off-the-shelf Philips or Sony mechanisms, yes. Rather like video recorders (though much less complicated) they've become rather less robust over the years as production volume has increased - I don't think you'll find a die-cast Philips CDM12Pro in anything any more, outside of possibly a fancy-shmancy top-loading audiophile model, but they were standard initially.

My 9-year-old Marantz skips a bit if it's in a cold room but that's a manufacturing defect (Philips put the wrong grade of grease on the laser-sled or something), my 11-year-old Goodmans portable is a bit sensitive to scratches, but always was and my 6-year-old Copland better last forever cos I'll never be able to afford to fix it.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this why the old ones that just told you what track was playing and not how long it had been playing for were better? I thought it was perhaps the effort entailed in telling the time.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've often wondered about that, PJ. It's probably one tiny bit of electronics needed to relay the timing info (which is not explicitly on the disc but can be deduced from data that is) but maybe early manufacturers thought, "Who needs to know this? Leave it out."

Perhaps Bob Harris eventually brought pressure to bear on Philips and Sony with his DJing 'mainly from compact disc'. "I need to know how long this Bonnie Raitt track has left, Goddamnit - I've got to cue up this Andy Peebles jingle" and so on.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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