The CD player in my car will eventually skip on any CD I put in there. Will this do irreparable damage to a CD if I keep playing it on a car system that skips?
I had a CD player that would skip, every time I went over a bump. Not that I have anything against CDs but I now prefer to have my music files in a USB drive. It is less bulkier and more convenient.
Frankie Messages: 10 Registered: September 2017 Location: DC
Chancellor
My old car had a CD player that did that and I did eventually notice that my CDs were getting a lot of scratch marks. I can't say if this is 100% due to the player skipping, but I definitely have my suspicions. I ended up having to toss a bunch out.
I've never had such an experience in a car before but my assumption would be that the skipping would most probably damage the CD. My current car radio has a USB port and that's what I use most of the time.
gofar99 Messages: 1949 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
Illuminati (5th Degree)
Hi, Possibly, but probably not. What happens when one skips is that it has lost its place on the disk and the loss is long enough to exceed the amount of data in its buffer. Most players will actually lose there place from time to time, but have big enough buffers so you will never know it. The less costly the player the more likely it will have a small buffer. Any made more than about 5 years ago will be more prone to this happening as memory was more costly back then.
I hate the ones that skip in the car. I bought a better cd player and it stopped. I thought at first it was the way it was mounted so I mounted the new one really well. Don't know if that was it but it is working great now.
The less costly the player the more likely it will have a small buffer. Any made more than about 5 years ago will be more prone to this happening as memory was more costly back then.
That makes a lot of sense, thank you. Mine was a factory installed unit in a 4 year old car. I have a new CD this was happening to, but I'm not noticing any scratch marks yet.
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