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Thread #49967   Message #756680
Posted By: Joe_F
29-Jul-02 - 09:09 PM
Thread Name: TECH: Why don't CD's sometimes play?
Subject: RE: TECH: Why don't CD's sometimes play?
I had this trouble with a CD I bought from Margaret Macarthur. My computer would play it; my CD player would play every other CD I had, but not that one, nor the second copy of it that I bought: it would play it for a while, and then start skipping or give up altogether. At last, a hifiddledy friend of mine explained: Folkies try to jam as many songs on one CD as they can; they do that by decreasing the pitch, which is taxing to whatever magical feedback loop it is that keeps the laser beam on track, and so such CDs cannot be played reliably except on the most modern players. He gave me a new player, and that did the job.