I agree with the premise that if it played regular CD's I should forget about the MP3's or seek better blank discs, but alas, the problem is worse than that.

It only occasionally plays a regular, manufactured CD, even a brand new one. I have used a couple of cleaning disc treatments on it and it still refuses to play on demand.

It cost the PO $399 a couple of years ago, and has never worked as well as any other CD I have owned.

I suppose I could take it out of the car and check it carefully, then i I can't fix it, take it to the aforementioned pro.

An inelegant solution would be to use its auxiliary jack to plug in a CD player or a CD cassette player. Slightly more elegant would be to get a CD deck that plays thru the FM radio.

Both are a little like what Uncle Ray-Bob did when he had one TV with a good picture and no sound and another with good sound and no picture. Just stacked one on top of the tother.

He said it looked just like the guy on the local news, but with only one picture.

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