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[Quisp]

Can anyone suggest a CD cleaning product that works? I have quite a few CDs I'd like to try and save, if possible. They are pretty well scratched. While I don't expect miracles, I'd like to be able to repair/rip CDs with a medium amount of damage (scratches).

[KingSparta]

Audio Cleaning Lab works good i have another new one i forget the name and don't have access to it untill friday, but i think Audio Cleaning Lab works well.

[zevele10]

see my post TIP
-damaged cd

[loraan]

I have saved several CDs with "skipdoctor" or some generic version of such. I had one CD that I couldn't save. It had a scratch on one track and I decided that if I couldn't save the CD, I would just buy a new copy of it. I kept running it through the polisher and then trying to play it. Eventually, the entire CD wouldn't play, not just the scratched track. I assume in that case that the scratch was so deep as to be unrecoverable... c'est la vie.

Here's a URL: http://store.advantage123.com/motskipdoc.html
Here's another: http://www.digitalinnovations.com/index.asp

Note--I see they have a motorized version now, so you don't have to keep cranking!

[Quisp]

Thanks, all for the responses.

It looks like Skip Doctor is about the only product that is widely available out there. And by widely available, I mean available in the two stores I frequent. I've used it once and it seemed to work, but it wasn't mine and I couldn't really test it (It solved the skip problem, but I never tried ripping the CD).

I've read reviews on Amazon, either it cures cancer or it destroys everything within a ten mile radius, hardly able to make a decision based on the reviews, but it may be my only choice. Unfortunately it is an expensive product to test...

[LonWar]

For the people that have used it:

Does it leave rings on the info side of the disk? Can you tell that it went through the machine?

I have used something similar and the disc when it was done looked terrible...

[Quisp]

It makes the disc look like it is totally unplayable, a dull evenly "scratched" look. It supposedly doesn't effect playing, but it sure doesn't look pretty. I just need to get CDs to the point where I can digitize them, then I'll stick them on my shelf, possibly in some kind of order; so I shouldn't be too concerned about how it looks, but it is a bit unsettling.