Recently I put in a CD in my CD player and after the disk went in I received a message "unreadable disk" or somthing to that effect. I attempted to have the disk ejected to no avail. I rarely use the CD player but have never had issues before, any suggestions? I also powered down the PCM when I replaced my battery but it did not help.

I did seach the archives without sucess.

 

millsjq,

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Just thought I would add my update to this thread. PCM with 997.1 or 987.1. If you have ever had a cd get stuck, or will not fully eject... tries to, but then goes back in... It may be the smoothness of the cd itself.

For example. I like to burn lots of songs on to a cd and use the PCM to read the folders and files. I can have like 10 albums on 1 cd. I noticed the burned cd's I was using were getting stuck. Had to use tweezers to pull them out. Then I inserted a regular, non-burned, album cd with a nice label on it and it popped in and out no problem.

So it seems that as long as the cd's have a label, or graphic on the cd the mechanism has no problem spitting them out. Its when you get very smooth non-label sided cd's in there that it seems to not get a good grip on it when it tries to spit it out... I hope that makes sense. I was ready to send it in for repairs or get a new one, because the cd was stuck, but as long as it has a label on it I have not had any issues...

 

What music was it? I found that it really does not like 80s disco or some styles of country music.

Peace
Bruce in Philly

 

Darn it!! I always wondered why it wouldn't spit out my favorite 80's disco cd's !!!

come to think of it... who uses cd's anymore?? this old man needs to get with the times and upgrade!

 

Take a second CD, grasp firmly as to not let it go, and slowly insert a portion of it into the CD slot. Hopefully the CD in the system will eject when the motor activates. Worked for me when it happened. Only occurred once.

 

This Old Man (51), now brings 20 or so CD's along for the ride. I have my 5s hooked up but....I just think the CD Sound Quality is better.
Plus I'm nostalgic.
The Sound is better though!

 

Here's what Ive done before.
The cd players work like the old fashion wringer washers.
2 sticky rubber rollers, upper & lower working to load and eject the cd's.
These rollers will get contaminated and begin to slip with dust over time and need cleaning depending on use and environment. A sur sign is scuffs from slipping rollers across the entire width of the CD.
Paper labels on cdr's hastens this.
Usually, cleaning involves dismantling the cd mechanism and cleaning the rollers with a cotton swap wet with isopropyl alcohol.
Another alternative without removing the radio is I've used those blue "shop towels. Cut to the width of a cd.
Fold it over so it covers the complete sacrificial cd top & bottom. Wet both sides with the alcohol.
While holding it VERY FIRMLY, insert the cd. As it tries to pull the cd in with the rollers, pull the cd in & out a few times to clean the rollers. ***DO NOT LET GO OR SAY BYE TO THE CD WITH THE TOWEL*** which then mean a visit the the stereo service guy. ME )

Most manufactures as well have a built in "forced eject" built in. Press and hold the eject button which skip other commands and force the eject function.

I ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY SELF SERVICE

 

Awesome... I am gonna try this too... since lately my labeled cd's are only coming out like 50% of the time... Hoping my butter fingers don't lose blue paper shop towels in the cd player