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grr, i scratched my new sigur ros cd. there's this white line going from the outside to almost the middle. the only track that seems to be messed up is the second one ... i was lamenting to a friend about it and she was saying i could do a home remedy for it ... by dabbing tooth paste on the scratch and lightly rubbing it in. now, before i make it worse and have to buy a new cd, has anyone ever heard of this? are there any other possible home remedies? what is this scratch doctor thing? thanks |
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Yeah I've heard of that too. I tried toothpaste myself on a cd which was scratched... it didn't work at all :-( (but it didn''t make things worse either). |
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I'm pretty sure that you can buy stuff meant to clean cd's,. just go down to your local $2 store |
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If the scratch is on the side with the print, there's nothing you can do. If it's on the other side, some cleaning might help,and if that doesn't work, I'd try the toothpaste thing. The cd's damaged anyway. |
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yeah,.. if you can see an empty spot when you hold the cd up to the light,.. It's wrecked |
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If you get the scratch mostly buffed out with toothpaste you might try extracting the music to .wav files with cdparanoia. I enjoy taking people's garbage "hopelessly scratched" CDs and doing this. Then you can make nice high quality VBR MP3s or just burn a cd-r. |
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I positive there are CD repair kits available quite cheap..just do a search on them |
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How do I repair my Master of Puppets CD? It split from the outer edge into the middle. Now, normally it should've stopped there because of the hole in the middle, but noooOOOooo it continued on the other side ending up in two pieces. I dropped it on the floor and it landed on the edge. Very weird. -P |
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The toothpaste thing does work. Make sure you rub it all off afterwards. |
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best remedy: buy a new cd |
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my bf wrecked my maxinquaye. tell me if this toohtpaste thing works so i can fix it :) |
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to be serious, there is some kind of weird tool you can buy. it's hard to describe, but you put your cd on this flat surface, put a little oil on it, and then turn this handle.. which supposedly "wipes" away the scratches. one of my cousins bought these things, and it just ended up scratching the cd ten times as badly |
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took a while to find one, but . |
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yea, i have that and it hasn't helped at all. i think if you scratch cd (in the music part.. you're lucky if it's the part where there's no music) you have to buy another :/ there're like 10-20 cd's i need to replace cos one or more songs won't play. for 2 years i couldn't play my favorite radiohead song, "exit music." and for the last year i haven't been able to play "girl/boy song" but fortunately i have that on the amp compilation as well. |
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the problem i've run into is that I can play a song fine on my stereo, even if it is scratched, but if I try to rip a few songs from it and put them onto my computer, the scratches (i think) cause the software/hardware to freeze up and it won't rip that song |
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