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ksoth   03-20-2003 at 05:43:20 AM

CDs are the crappiest media damnit. Does anyone have good things to say about any of the CD repair kits out there for getting rid of scratches? Nothing ruins a song more than a sequence of skips and jerks, especially when it's a $30 CD.

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lhgpoobaa   03-20-2003 at 07:41:06 AM
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take better care of them?

the kits do work somewhat... depends on thetype of scratch... really deep ones are hard to fix and dangerious to put into fast spinning drives.

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Stick_e_Mouse   03-20-2003 at 08:23:23 AM
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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by sTiCk_E_mOuSe on 03/20/03 01:56 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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ksoth   03-20-2003 at 05:48:20 PM
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Man I do take care of them. It's just over time they get scratches. And I'm not talking about CDR's, I mean music albums. I'm just not sure if I want to go spend $20-$30 without assurance that it will work.

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Yahiko81   03-20-2003 at 06:16:18 PM
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That's why you make copies of your cd's and just use the copied ones to listen to.


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scamtrOn   03-20-2003 at 08:32:48 PM
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you ever use butter?

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ksoth   03-20-2003 at 09:20:04 PM
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I actually just started doing that. Two of my favorite CDs are so scratched they barely play, so I had to buy two new ones, and all I did was WMA them, and will make copies. But, from all my pre-CD-burner days, I got lotsa messed up ones.

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Yahiko81   03-20-2003 at 09:25:07 PM
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Weird Hindo.

Butter don't work. You tried that on one of mine and now all it does is pop popcorn. Taste good though.

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groth2757   03-20-2003 at 10:19:18 PM
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Dude why are you spending $20-$30 a cd? Most cd's cost anywhere from $12-$15 here in Jersey. Are you a music collector? Is there a reason you just don't download the music and burn it? I can respect it if you like buying the original...I'm like that with DVD's. Just like everyone else suggested I would just burn copies and use them instead.

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Stick_e_Mouse   03-20-2003 at 10:53:31 PM
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Hey, I'm such a dumba$$.
LOL!

At first, I thought you were talking about how CD-Rs are the crappiest media - which is why I told you not to use cheap CD-Rs. LOL.

But after rereading your post, I realized you were talking about (possibly) $30 music CDs. Opps, my bad.

Disregard my previous post.
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scamtrOn   03-21-2003 at 02:32:07 AM
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</font color=red><b>every one lets celebrate!!!! sTiCk_E_mOuSe finally figured out that he is a retard :redface:

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scamtrOn   03-21-2003 at 02:33:28 AM
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i love you stick eeeeeeeeeeeee

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scamtrOn   03-21-2003 at 02:42:42 AM
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hindo what hindo are hindo you hindo talking hindo about hindo? hindo it hindo actually hindo worked hindo. hindo remember hindo? i did it one one of your kenshin cds hindo

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Yahiko81   03-21-2003 at 03:41:47 AM
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reminds me of your website.

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dhlucke   03-21-2003 at 04:50:20 AM
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First of all you can buy most CDs much cheaper. Besides that though I would suggest trying to burn a copy of the CD and see if that works. At 1x you never know, but it might work.

CD's do wear out, there's no question about it. Keep them in cases, don't touch the bottom, and you should be ok, but they're still gonna wear out.

I don't trust those CD cleaners. They might work though, but I would definitely stay away from the CD player cleaners. I've had a player go bad.

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jihiggs   03-21-2003 at 05:05:43 AM
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this is not a permanent solution but oil from your nose is the best for repairing scratches temporarily. little trick i picked up from photography, it also works great for fixing scratches on negatives. you just rub the oil into the scratch and it almost disapears even visibly. it works long enough to make a copy of the cd, then it melts, gets flung off or whatever but it does work.

my computer is so fast, it completes an endless loop in less than 4 seconds!

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dhlucke   03-21-2003 at 05:25:44 AM
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That's pretty cool!

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Yahiko81   03-21-2003 at 02:42:35 PM
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That was scammy's idea with the butter.

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Lonemagi   03-21-2003 at 03:07:36 PM
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A few used cd stores I go to can repair them for a few bucks. Its usualy just a buffing machine, but I have done it for a few of my cds and it works as long as the scratches arent that deep.

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Stick_e_Mouse   03-21-2003 at 07:17:44 PM
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Hey, I might be a retard, but I'm not GAY! =)

Disregard my previous post.
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scamtrOn   03-22-2003 at 12:18:48 AM
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oh thank god your not gay... *phew* i was starting to think you got the hots for me the way you been acting :tongue:

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ksoth   03-22-2003 at 12:32:15 AM
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Well, the $20-$30 CDs that I have (only a few) were imports and I had the get them online, before Amazon.co.uk existed. I'm not a music collector, it's just there are imports that I like that are expensive, and are too obscure to be able to download full albums I want (and wouldn't want to do that anyways).

I am going to only burn copies from now on, but like I said, I have messed up CDs from before I had a burner. I was thinking about taking a scratched CD I don't care for too much and wet-sanding it with like 1000 grit sandpaper or something, then buffing. See if that works.

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ksoth   03-22-2003 at 12:37:45 AM
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Some CDs I couldn't get for cheaper (imports). I can't keep them in cases because I listen to most of my music in my car, so I have to use a CD carrying case that holds 72 CDs. I'm sure some scratches happen putting them in and out of the carrying case.

Man, why the f*ck are they still using the same crap plastic as they did 20 years ago damnit? You think by now they would have invented some new scrath-resistant stuff that makes them last longer. But, I guess music companies WANT their CDs to wear out fast so consumers have to replace them if they want to keep listening. Bastards... I wonder how much glass CDs would cost to make, hmm...

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Vokofpolisiekar   11-12-2009 at 03:23:34 PM
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Yes

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audiovoodoo   11-12-2009 at 07:10:22 PM
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6 years 8 months. I think he made the top 10 wank posts list.

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