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- From: co014@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Virgil Morant)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.cd
- Subject: Re: CD's that won't track
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 02:48:39 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: co014@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Virgil Morant)
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- In a previous article, co014@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Virgil Morant) says:
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- >In the last year or two that I've been collecting compact discs, this is
- >the second time this has happened.
- >
- >I put a CD, which had worked properly in the past, into my player and
- >there was an unusually long pause (during the time when my player
- >normally reads the track information). Then, when I tried to play the
- >disc, the player said, "PLAY", for a few seconds, then stopped. When I
- >played with the display (which normally tells me the number of tracks
- >and total length of the CD), all the player showed were a bunch of
- >zeroes, so I assume the player failed to read the disc's tracking
- >information.
- >
- >I intend to return the disc and get a new one, as I did when this
- >happened to another disc months ago, but I am wondering if anyone else
- >has experienced this problem with CDs.
- >
- >Would anyone like to say what (might) cause this?
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- By the way, the CD in question is _BOI-NGO_ by Oingo Boingo, and the
- company behind it is MCA Records.
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- Virgil Thomas Alexander Morant
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