Excitement, Oh Crap, and then Discovery

[arcaxis]

The compilation disks came today !!! I've been anxiously waiting for them. Carefully cut away the tape to open the cardboard box and there they are, a nicely boxed set. Yahoo, I gotta play disc #1. Turned on the stereo and CD player and opened the tray and carefully set #1 in. The anticipation is building !!! I hear the 5 disc changer turning and searching for the disc. It settles and I hit play. Oh, oh..."NO DISC" is displayed on the player. Ah maybe the disc didn't set into tray quite right. Take it out, put it back in. Same menacing orange glowing message again, "NO DISC". Could the disc have not been recorded ??? Take it out to look at the reorded side for what it's worth. Looks OK..........

..........Aarghh.....there's a sticky paper dot on the center hole evidently to hold the disc to the case spindle during shipping. Never seen the likes of this before. Yup the other two have it as well.

The CD's do load and play significantly better without the sticky paper dots. I got through disc #1 and it sounds great. The next two will get a listen on the drive to work tomorrow.

[Emeric]

heheh. I thought you were going to say your 5 disk changer ate the disk. I have one of those multi-changer things, I listened to the red disk once and never saw it again - the machine ate it. It fell down somewhere inside the player.

The red disk was my fav to

[sm2k]

Haha, I was going to include a warning note in the packaging...but I figured, "who's not going to see this big ol' sticker?"

Haha

Slackmaster 2000

[dtb]

you know, I wasn't gonna say anything, but maybe I should. My first listen to the red cd did something also. after I listened, and ejected, it stayed in the player. it took a few push backs, and ejections to get it out. and this is a single tray player. the other two were no problem. so the next time the red went in, it did the same thing. all three play fine everywhere else. so I made a copy of the red and use it, as not to fuck up the "real" red cd, or my player. I haven't tried it again in that player out of fear.

Has anyone else had any troubles like this.

Dan

[sm2k]

I had trouble with one of them sticking in my car CD player too...which happens with only a few CDs of mine. Don't know why.

Slackmaster 2000

[Gidge]

the first disk (blue?purple?) is stuck in my changer......

[DaveO]

So far I haven't had any trouble with mine. I've played them in the changer in my home stereo, my car, a home PC, and my work PC

My PC at work has a CD drive that always seems to give me problems. About 1/3 of the time it won't read a CD, whether it's a CD-R. CD-RW, or "real" CDs. Could be music or data too. but so far even HRCII plays with no trouble.

[drstawl]

It was a cool idea to keep the jewel case "little fingers" that hold the discs in place from getting snapped off in transit.

[Slackmaster2K]

Yeah that was the idea...I didn't expect the stickers to be so damn sticky though!

Sometime I'm going to try those little shipping peanuts...I figure one peanut clamped in the case should keep the CD from moving, thus breaking the center tabs. Never tried it though.

There's nothing worse than getting a CD in the mail and hearing that unmistakable rattle!

[christiaan]

Wow... So it wasn't a coincidence. One of them got stuck in my cd-player too. I managed to get it out. Left a scratch on the cd but it still plays well..
I now think it's maybe the glue remainders that were left on the cd after I pulled the sticker off. The stickers didn't come off clean.