The cd has no scratches, and is not dirty - I did try going through each track on the player - I just got an eerie few bars of track 10 - the day thou gavest lord is ended - which was rather spooky.

I will set up the old computer and try to play it with that - the new pc with Windows 8.1 has no media stuff on it - which is one of the worst decisions that Microsoft have made for a while.

Also - who thought that tiny keyboards made of black plastic with grey printing was the way to go? I am trying to reinstate the old one which is PS2 and the curved type with the triangular split in the middle so my wrists don't have to twist round so much. This one is slightly curved but has no wrist support so my hands ache.