r/CDs

Recently, a three-disc box set I'd purchased on Discogs turned up with an undeclared surface scuff near the outside of a disc (on the data side, not the label side). The scuff affected play: when I tried it out, the player couldn't transition cleanly from the second-to-last track into the last track. Sometimes it skipped repeatedly and then landed way ahead of the problem location; other times it just gave up and skipped to the end of the disc and stopped. I contacted the seller, and they more than did me right: they refunded me the cost of the set without requiring me to send it back.

I didn't want to try "fixing" the scuff when I thought it likely I'd be returning it, because if I failed to fix it or made things worse, I didn't want it suggested that the problem was my doing. But now that I'm not returning it, I'd like to try to remove the scuff if possible: the disc is already messed up, and I'd already be seeking out another copy, so I figure I might as well try. If I succeed. I'll probably end up trying to send some money back to the vendor, since I did get something out of it.

But I've never done this before, so I don't know how to go about it. I've heard of polishing out scuffs, but not how it's done. There are sources on the web; but they say conflicting things.

Have you ever done this? How did you do it?

I've got young kids and want to keep them off devices, iPads YouTube, Spotify etc, so getting to reliving my youth by introducing them to Guns n' Roses, EMF and Renaissance dance compilations...

The next step has been CD players from the Charity Shop, but unfortunately the selection of cheap CD's is pretty poor, so looking at burning CD's.

I've started burning some CD's from my collection for them and there is talk of them making their own complications.

Does anyone still do this, if so do you have any tips for printing CD labels and Cd Covers?

I managed to get a CD Writer and CD's from Temu, they have also have CD label stickers, is anyone doing this part like they were in the earlier 2000's? 😁

If so any tips or software you have used?

Thanks