Does any body know of any good ways to clean a cd. I dont like to use those skip doctors, they ruined one of my cd's. I know of using toothpaste and then washing it off in the sink. I think its works by filling in the cracks or something like that.
Scratched CD's
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No, the toothpaste is just mildly abrasive and takes off the very outer surface of the CD. If the scratches are any deeper than just barely scratching the surface, then it won't work.
Frankly, I've never had a CD that was scratched lightly enough where toothpaste or some other solution fixed it, that wouldn't still play. Never found a good solution - deep scratches are deep scratches and they obliterate the data that's burned into the CD.
You can buy kits that are mild abrasives like toothpaste and they have some cloths and alcohol to wash everything off afterwards. They work occasionally, but if they don't, your CD is probably toast. Sorry. You could throw it in your PC and see how much music you can rip off of it, so the CD isn't a total loss.
Frankly, I've never had a CD that was scratched lightly enough where toothpaste or some other solution fixed it, that wouldn't still play. Never found a good solution - deep scratches are deep scratches and they obliterate the data that's burned into the CD.
You can buy kits that are mild abrasives like toothpaste and they have some cloths and alcohol to wash everything off afterwards. They work occasionally, but if they don't, your CD is probably toast. Sorry. You could throw it in your PC and see how much music you can rip off of it, so the CD isn't a total loss.
yr best bet would be to try to use ExactAudioCopier to rip the damaged disc...depending on how bad the disc is, it could be a slow, arduous process. but it usually works.
So what's ExactAudioCopier and where do you get it? Google was unrewarding...
doh!
yeah, this program, in conjunction w/ LAME (the compressor), is the standard way i rip and compress music discs. works really well once you get the hang of it.
yeah, this program, in conjunction w/ LAME (the compressor), is the standard way i rip and compress music discs. works really well once you get the hang of it.
You could probably just download a copy of the CD via your preferred P2P network and burn a new one that way.
I have one of these...
http://www.digitalinnovations.com/products.php?id=1&checkCat=1&cat2=1&sub2=2
It's a godsend. Fixes most CDs I've successively trashed. However, since I got and mp3 player and fried my car's deck, I haven't exactly been using most of my CDs...
http://www.digitalinnovations.com/products.php?id=1&checkCat=1&cat2=1&sub2=2
It's a godsend. Fixes most CDs I've successively trashed. However, since I got and mp3 player and fried my car's deck, I haven't exactly been using most of my CDs...
I coppy all of my cds and keep the original in the original case.
That's a good procedure. Now if you'd just quit that God awful chewing......caputo1989 said:
Along the lines of what narlus recommended, I used Unstoppable Copier to extract any type of data from a scratched disc. Slow but effective.