Re: (idm) CD skipping

From Irene McC
Sent Fri, May 14th 1999, 09:32

On 13 May 99, Moonlight wrote re: (idm) CD skipping:

> apparently it's scratched because it's skipping.  But i'm listening
> to the skip and it's very irregular and cool.  The skip is between
> beats, but it keeps shifting some and catching a bit of the beat
> after it here and there. Yeah, it sounds kindof like Pan sonic. 

Right : you're obviously the man I should sell my faulty CD burner to!

> Is there any way that this is bad for my CD player?

No, it shouldn't be, because no part of your player physically 
touches the CD.  The laser reader bounces off the mirrored surface. 
 If that surface has any irregularities, the laser cannot correctly 
decode the zero's and one's that make up the data.

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