Rinse the cd, squirt a bit of dish soap on it, really rub the soap/water all around the disk with your fingers, rinse the disk (& your hands!), and dry it off, not as dry as possible tho! Give it a try in your player.

The soap in the water makes the water 'wetter', this lets it completely fill the scratch. Drying not so vigoursly leaves some of the water in the bottom of the groove. The laser sees the water as top of the disk, not the scratch & reads/plays 'Green Onions' or whatever.

Problem with this method is after 2-3 hours, the water completely dries out & you are back to square one. If it 'rips', then burn another cd, , , ,

I do this with second hand DVD's, works for me.

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