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    Sounds like the problem I had when I bought my Sony CDP-35 player,
    except that I didn't notice any pops or snaps.  One disc in particular,
    skipped all over the place, making me think I had a bad disc.  It
    turned out to be the player.  Most replies to my note on this, about
    6 months ago, attributed this to the laser being aligned "on the
    hairy edge", and that disc brought out the problem.  So, maybe it's
    not the disc but the player itself.  Check it out.

    I've read nothing that suggests that CDs deterioriate over time.
    It may indeed be that your player has some particular problem with
    this disc.
    
    Note that the "laser rot" malady that affects some LV discs is
    unrelated to CDs.
    					Steve

    
    One of my discs all of a sudden after playing fine for two months
    started to play out of synch. I thought it was the player. I couldn't
    understand it because all my other discs were fine. I called up
    the dealer and he told me to wipe the disc from middle to end and
    look for fingerprints especially. He said sometimes a disc can be 
    a fine line from good to faulty. If you happen to get a fine line
    disc, a fingerprint could cause the laser not to be able to read
    properly. I wiped it down and looked for fingerprints and corrected
    the problem. The disc plays fine now. I'm not sure if he was correct
    or not but cleaning the disc with a lint free dry cloth seemed to
    do the trick.
                                                   Rich
                                               
    
    

    I have a disc which developed cracks in it running from the hole
    in the center of the disc to the beginning of the music.  Since
    the music begins very close to the center, these cracks are very
    short, but one of them out of the 4 cracks runs radially out from
    the center right into the recording.  I believe that the problem
    may stem from the "tension button" in the center which holds the
    disc in place using slight pressure.  After noticing the cracks,
    I inspected the jewel box and the button and found that the button
    was holding the disc with more pressure than was needed by other
    jewel boxes and may have caused the cracks.  Another possibility
    is that I may have pulled the disc out roughly without completely
    pressing the button to release it.  In any case, the disc plays
    well and sounds fine!

RE .0

Have you tried playing that disc in another player, both before and after
cleaning ?

P.

    Please, please, please, for heaven's sake, don't abuse your CD's!
    Naturally, if you treat a CD like sh*t, they're going to sound like
    sh*t.  Follow the directions printed on the box.  Treat them gently,
    like a conventional LP, and they WILL last a very long time.  After
    playing, put them gently back into the box.  Don't sit on them or
    throw them against the wall.  Keep your fingers, dust, lint free
    cloths, toothpaste and everything else FAR, FAR, away from your
    CD's.
    
    I treat my disks like children.  I protect them with my love.  :^)
    
    
    						-Paul
      

    I had a friend who would throw his CD's around like frisbees.  After
    a while, one of them got so scratched up that it wouldn't play.
    
    The solution was to polish out the scratch, and that fixed it.
    
    -Jeff

    RE: .7
    
    The correct solution was to NOT throw your CD's around like Frisbees.
    
    I have no sympathy for persons who abuse their CD's.  I keep mine
    in the jewel box and have no problems.
    
    
    						-Paul
    

    There is an engineer here in CSS Reading whose spaniel decided to
    get into the music critic business. It chewed a CD jewel case up
    and put teethmarks in the disc itself. 
    
    It still plays with no perceptible effect on the sound.
    
    Strolls