I agree with teabelly, look in the manual for there being a hole in the front of the player into which you can poke a (straightened) paper-clip to cause it to eject the CD.
All the ones in computers that I have seen have one and on occasions I have had to use it. I would expect, but don't know for sure, that car ones would have similar.
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buzbee, the pinhole eject mechanism on a computer cd rom is to release the tray, cars dont have trays. Halmer, I don't know which cd you have, but I had a similar problem on my Mondeo with the 6006E stereo with built in 6-disc cd, just out of warranty. The solution I found was to press and hold the eject button until "Eject all" was displayed and the offending cd came out along with all the others. It was, as it happens, an original cd not a copy. The cd had two deep gouges in it as if it had been mechanically trapped. When I got it out I copied it on the computer and I now use the copy in the car.
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buzbee, the pinhole eject mechanism on a computer cd rom is to release the tray, cars dont have trays.
There are many upmarket computers with slot-loading optical drives, and I dare say most laptops are like this.
Look near the slot for a pin hole, or if you can hear it whirr, try inserting a business card as you press eject, and pulling the card out as the CD tries to eject, may take a few attempts at different angles etc...
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buzbee, the pinhole eject mechanism on a computer cd rom is to release the tray, cars dont have trays. There are many upmarket computers with slot-loading optical drives, and I dare say most laptops are like this. Look near the slot for a pin hole, or if you can hear it whirr, try inserting a business card as you press eject, and pulling the card out as the CD tries to eject, may take a few attempts at different angles etc...
And your point regarding a CAR cd player is ?
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Two points... I was correcting your misinformation, then suggesting that the complainant look for a hole similar to that on other slot loading optical drives, listen for a whir, try the business card trick etc... (It's all there in my original post!).
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Two points... I was correcting your misinformation, then suggesting that the complainant look for a hole similar to that on other slot loading optical drives, listen for a whir, try the business card trick etc... (It's all there in my original post!).
I was just trying to point out that your post made no reference to a CAR cd player just "upmatket computers" and "some laptops", which had already been covered in a previous post, when the guy was asking for info on a car CD player. BTW which bit of my post do you regard as misinformation ?
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Does the CD have a self-made stick on label that has become partially detached?
And if it has, then I would guess that it will then invalidate the warranty.
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You will find, somewhere in the audio instruction manual specifically stated *do not use CDR or CDRW*
Now you and I know that they are the same size, same weight, etc etc and should not jam. May not play but should not jam.
HOWEVER bleat as much as you like, the dealer will find a legal get out of fixing your cd changer if it has a CDR/W
There is however a legal get out if your device can play MP3 cd's.
You cant buy MP3 pre recorded CD's. Therefore if your device can play MP3's it has by implication been designed to use CDR's and therefore fixable under warranty.
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Just take it to another dealer and this time don't tell them it's a copy CD.
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>>You cant buy MP3 pre recorded CD's. Therefore if your device can play MP3's
Nothing was mentioned about MP3..A direct copy of a cd on most newer players will play back a CDR as long as its finalised..And in .Wav format. even if it wasnt.
disc player will still give either disc error/no disc inserted..Ie its unreadable..I see no reason why it cannot either be fixed by garage or replaced.Rejection of cd has nothing to do with CD inserted..Only failure of mechanism to eject.two entirely different things
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If you inserted a CD the wrong way round (label to laser), you would expect it to eject, so I agree a CD-R should too.
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You are, under the Copyright of the cd, allowed to make one copy for your own use and you are allowed to MP3 encode the tracks for your own personal use. I do not see the problem. As previuosly ask, was there a label on the CD ??. Contact the UK Customer Service Department and get there opinion why the dealer is being dumb. Regards Peter
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Sorry for the delay.A couple of points in response.
It is a friend of mine's car not mine.
The CD does not have a label of any sort adhered to it. It's just a copy of a CD fro the original that she has bought so that she can play it in the car. I think that it's a CD-R.
If she does contact the Customer Services Department I hope that she gets more joy than I did when I contacted them over a separate issue ( I have the same make car).
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Whether it's an audio CD, a CD-R or a CD-RW (the latter is not the best media to use for music recordings) won't/shouldn't make any difference to how the player handles them; furthermore, it cannot make any difference if it is a copy disk.
The contents of the disk have no bearing on the subject, given even more weight by the fact that MP3 recordings on a CD-R are clearly produced by the owner for such use.
I can't recall a tray type car CD player, for which the pinhole is provided to clear a stuck disk, only slot or magazine types, so it won't apply in this case.
If, by some chance, it is a tray type player, then using the special pin provided or a paper clip opened out, make sure that the system is switched off first before using the pin/paper clip; this is for obvious reasons and also applies to domestic or computer CD/DVD drives.
The most likely reasons for the jam are as mentioned earlier, a second disk having been inserted in error or a label coming adrift on a CD-R or CD-RW. This is not a good practice as such labels upset the disk's rotation as the centrifugal force builds up.
I would suspect that the garage is quite within its rights to refuse to do the work under warranty unless the CD unit's internal mechanisms/drive bands have become faulty. That would be hard to prove at present.
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Just found this with regard to Mac systems which provides a clue(!) :
"People are having this problem a lot (jammed CDs) with copy protected CDs and Apple does not care. Their response is that copy protected CDs are not within the specs of CDs in general, and therefore are technically not CDs. They are technically correct, and most manufacturers of gear including Sony and Philips who invented the technology, are with them on this."
In this case the CD was released by holding down the mouse button and rebooting the system - it might work in a car by holding the eject button and turning the ignition off and then on (or even firing up the engine at the same time).
Another possibility is:
tinyurl.com/4qreg (TinyURLed as the link is 292 characters long!)
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>>You are, under the Copyright of the cd, allowed to make one copy for your own use and you are allowed to MP3 encode the tracks for your own personal use.>>
This is completely untrue, especially in relation to a copyrighted CD - in fact it is illegal and particularly if for financial gain.
However, making a single backup copy of a CD for personal use is unlikely to get you into trouble. Record companies are out to get the big duplicators, not individuals.
What does rankle me is that some of the biggest music companies who fight illegal copying of audio CDs also manufacture and distribute the very hardware (i.e. CD/DVD rewriters) that allows you to perform such an illegal act....
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