One of my unobtanium Blues CD's got scratched so some of the tracks now stutter .

How to properly clean it and what do I use ? .

Medium for cleaning and product .

TIA,

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You might look on Amazon and see if there is a product. Or look online for cleaning methods for example:
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?ei=UTF-8&p=how+to+clean+scratched+cds#id=2&vid=155e65f7de602a7799cbef7a49e677be&action=click

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”Incredibly, scratches in the surface of a CD or DVD can be fixed with softened wax! As with the toothpaste fix, you can use shoe polish, lip balm, furniture wax, or even petroleum jelly. Again, rub it into the surface of the disc to fill the scratch. With a lint-free cloth, wipe of the excess wax, with a radial action.“

Toothpaste is most commonly used to polish the CD surface. The laser reads the inside of the CD, not the surface. When a CD is scratched then the laser is refracted and can't read the inside( music track ). Try it with a different CD making sure the toothpaste is okay first.

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One would be wise to copy valuable CD's to your HD as the media has a limited lifespan. If you get it to play, burn a new one. That being said the first CD I ever bought in the early 80's still plays.

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Past cars:
Porsche 914 2.0
'64 Jaguar XKE Roadster
'57 Oval Window VW
'71 Toyota Hilux Pickup Truck-Dad bought new
'73 Toyota Celica GT

Thanx fellas ! .

I watched some of the you tube links, I had tried toothpaste as it works well on other old hard plastics, maybe I didn't do it correctly .

I bought some plastic polish and will give that a try next .

I don't see how CD's have any finite lifespan .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

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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Thank you ! .

I no longer have a computer with CD R/W drive and I mostly use CD's when traveling so I need a fix that work's over time .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

This might help explain why CD's can fail over time. It is not a given that they will last forever. Hope you can get your music back Nate.
https://www.datadoctors.com/help/kenscolumns/22090-Do-CDs-DVDs-Wear-Out/

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Past cars:
Porsche 914 2.0
'64 Jaguar XKE Roadster
'57 Oval Window VW
'71 Toyota Hilux Pickup Truck-Dad bought new
'73 Toyota Celica GT

That's very helpful Tony, THANK YOU ! .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Back when I was still in the software world and CD’s were a new tangled thing, I traveled to a remote customer location to load a beta copy of a new release. It wouldn’t recognize the CD and I was sure that it had been a long trip for nothing. The load was more complex than simply transferring some files. In desperation, my customer found some isopropyl and a clean lint free cloth and carefully wiped it down. I had zero confidence that it would work, but it did.

Might be worth a try.

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THANK YOU .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better