Howdyou unscrew CDs?

Originally posted by Dr_simon
Catastrophic with flames and small explosions and stuff !!


Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ! Happy days !

kinda jimi hendrix monterey thing only with crap and thankfully inaudible music. Hmm. maybe that wasn't a great analogy. Hm. I seem to have caught hmms from iiholly!

Don't know if there is a Fry's electronics around your area, or www.outpost.com, they have a product called "disk doctor" it works great!

Originally Posted by: u10ajfArghhh! Two of my favourite albums are screwed; Dream Theater Awake and Three Sides to every Story by Extreme. I hate it I hate it. Argghh!!!! Please, do you know anything I can do to get rid of CD scratches? I heard brasso works but i tried it on a joe Satriani and it didn't help too much. Are there any laquers which fill in the scratch marks rather than wearing everything else down to that level?

Theres something ive never understood about fixing cd's.Even by filling in scratches,won't the information still be missing?

metho....metholated spirits...

I accidently bought some music CDs and they are "screwed" mainly used for DJs, is there any way to "un-screw" them???

Originally Posted by: u10ajfArghhh! Two of my favourite albums are screwed; Dream Theater Awake and Three Sides to every Story by Extreme. I hate it I hate it. Argghh!!!! Please, do you know anything I can do to get rid of CD scratches? I heard brasso works but i tried it on a joe Satriani and it didn't help too much. Are there any laquers which fill in the scratch marks rather than wearing everything else down to that level?

first of all... here we go with more old threads reviving...

secondly, did this guy come in, give advice, and then ask the same question as the original poster of this thread? I mean no offense or anything, I'm just saying that's kinda funny... it's kinda like "the bathrooms are down the hall, oh, and by the way, where are the bathrooms?"

lastly, LATS, is there anything you don't know? seriously... it's kinda scary

The data on cds is stored in a few places, when a cd player finds a scratch it'll spin around and try to find another replica of the data, this is why you get massive jumps, copying using your computer is a pretty reliable way of fixing this. I personally use cd ripping software to create a new version of the track then burn it back to a cd if required, at very least it gets rip of the big seeking pause you get, usuallly fixing them completely.

One of my mates told me that scratches can be romoved using a thin layer of t-cut he says he has used it on cd's n dvd's loads of times, be careful though n dont leave it on long because its pretty strong stuff.
i rip all my music on to my pc when i get it, it all goes on my ipod, then they live on the top shelf in my room nice n safe

Anybody else ever come across holes in their CD's?
I've got a few I bought in the early 90's where the surface inside the CD has eroded or something. (so much for CD's lasting a lifetime)

There was a good article on media lifespans in a computer magazine.

15 to 30 years for CD's or CD-/+R's or something in that realm.The next wave of storage is here in its infancy anyway...behold the flash!I think it will evolve a bit more though until we really see people buying "invisible" albums as the norm.

It really didn't say.It just gave the numbers and media.DVD's had something like 50+ years.

I imagine its just humidity/oxidation causing pits...i'm just speculating that though.

Originally Posted by: chucklivesoninmyheartTheres something ive never understood about fixing cd's.Even by filling in scratches,won't the information still be missing?

I'm pretty sure the information is stored on the back part of the label. The mirror surface you see on the bottom of the cd is the lable, not the plastic itself. But if you have holes in the label (as schmange said) you're pretty much screwed.

CDs anger me. I bought a King Diamond CD a few months ago and fresh out of the case I began ripping it. Towards the end of the CD the songs would just screw up and eventually I would just shut down the process because it was taking too long and the songs weren't coming through well at all. I was quite po'd if I recall correctly. I'd looked at the CD afterwards and it had circle scratches on it. The toothpaste thing didn't work for it either. So I took it back, told Best Buy to shove it, and they let me exchange it for a CD of the same price. Lucky me they had a different King Diamond 2-in-1 pack which I snatched up as soon as I saw it. So I have a fragment of a CD I want and I got 2 others in the process. Take that system.