So I put my Murder Inc. cd in my portable cd player this morning, only to find that there’s constant dropouts in the sound. Not skipping, but bits where it’s just silent for a second or so.
I’ve noticed similar problems with old Invisible cds and also old (pre-TVT) Waxtrax cds. Basically anything that had the super-glossy paper for the inserts and the little “made in Canada” sticker on the back.
So does anyone else have these problems? Were Waxtrax and Invisible both using the same cut-rate Canadian cd manufacturer back in the day?
i’ve got a lot of these disks. i don’t have that problem rev. did you try them on more than on player?
A lot of old CD’s “rot” or the ink label side bleeds through, it sucks…
So I put my Murder Inc. cd in my portable cd player this morning,
portable cd player. awesome. ipods be damned!
Bwahahahahahaha!!!
That’ll teacher ya for owning crappy cd’s!!!
Vinyl all the way baby!!!
That Murder Inc cd is notorious for that. Mine started degrating with static starting from the last song and working its way forward over time. That’s the only reason I bought the reissue. The old version I’d had for years had become unplayable…
No problem with the old Wax Trax cds though.
As long as you take care of your Cds i thought they were supposed to last forever! i thought only cdr’s had a shelf life…
Late,
grmpysmrf
Turns out it’s just the portable. Played on my stereo just fine. Now that I think about it, the problem I mentioned is pretty much restricted to portable cd players. Not just the one I currently own, either.
Some of my old Invisible CDs are a bit damaged, including Murder Inc., so I’m kind of biased against checking out stuff on that label. I haven’t had a problem with Wax Trax!. And as others have already mentioned, portable CD players are really sensitive to minor damage like that, but a good full-sized CD player will be fine. I think in general, the device matters more than the disc- I have some movies too that don’t play anymore in the VCR/DVD player, but play flawlessly in the PS2. Hopefully the discs will last a lifetime, as new machines come out that are better and better at reading around the damage.
Is there a known quality difference for various CD labels, with the smaller labels having to use cheaper CDs? I’ve sort of suspected that some of the indepdent releases are more easily damaged (the new PlatEAU CD Kushbush started skipping in my portable CD player the third time I listened to it, and I’ve already replaced The Last Sucker because the crappy cardboard package scratched it), yet a CD from a really mainstream label will take tons of visible damage and keep on playing (my copy of Filth Pig has way more damage than just about anything else, and still works). A lot of people who have only mainstream CDs don’t even feel the need to keep them in their cases. But I have no scientific knowledge of this stuff.
A lot of old CD’s “rot” or the ink label side bleeds through, it sucks…
Should CDs be stored upside-down so gravity pulls the ink away from the data?