Hi Mary, Welcome to the Joni list! I really admire your taste in music. About those CDs with pinholes: A few pinholes don't hurt anything and the CD players should "track" right through them. If the pinholes are no wider than say, the width of a house key, the player will ignore them.
(There is error correction built-in. The data is recorded several times, so the chip usually "knows" in advance what the data should be there and it is only looking for *confirmation*. If it doesn't get the confirmation due to a pinhole, the electronic chip reconstructs the data from memory. If it doesn't have an exact replica, it uses a best guess. If it can't guess, you get a silence or a skipping sound.) If you are hearing a problem, like silences, look at the non-label side of the CD. If it's all scratched up, it's likely that rough handling has caused the silences. If your CDs are not scratched, it's likely the CD player itself is dying an inelegant, embarrassing death. It's very unlikely that you are constantly buying CDs that rot. It's very rare so the chances that it keeps happening to any one person is vanishingly small. In short, if they sound fine, don't worry about them. If they don't sound fine and they're not scratched, its probably the player. Only if you live in a tropical rain forest with 100 degree (F) and 100% humidity, it's possible that your CDs are rotting. Jim ps, these aren't CD-Rs, made as copies are they? If so, don't store them in sunshine. The pigment won't last. --- Mary Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I'm on my > 4th Court & Spark). When I hold the cd up to the > light it has little > pinholes in it. Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com
