CD Player issue?


I was given a CD player as a gift recently. It's called the Pioneer PD-2000 LTD.

The lens had fallen out, but I was able to fit in back in easily.

The problem? Well it won't read any of my burned CD-Rs.

It reads original CDs very fast. Any reason why this might be the case?

Perhaps there is something else that can be done?

 

jackhifiguy

My PD65 could not read CD-R disks either before or after gluing the laser in place.  I was under the assumption that your player also had the "stable Platter".

I fixed the problem...

Applied hand sanitizer that kills 99.9% of germs to both sides of a qtip, waited a few minutes, then wiped thr lens off on both sides using a microfiber cloth.

Inserted thr lens back in to the optical pickup. And now it reads burned CDs and CDs that are original/store bought without any problems.

 

I believe that past 1988, vintage CD players should still play CD-Rs. But some odd ones do not. And beyond that, it could simply be laser in the optical pickup that gets weaker due to overuse.

 

I just want to  ask you A burned CD might not work in your car's CD player for a few reasons, all related to the media type (for example, CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-R), music format, burn method, and the head unit's capabilities. Some head units are touchier than others, and some recognize a limited set of file types.

I think you have to Very often audio CD’s burned at slower speeds will work in audio players while disks burned at higher speeds won’t. It’s been said that the laser encoding is somehow "clearer" when burning at slower speeds and this helps audio players, which often have a problem with home-burned CD’s, to cope with the disks. FaceTime