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Originally Posted by johnfowles
Well now Douglas I think Kathy has given you a strong clue. I assume as an up to date young man you possess on your computer such a thing as a CD burner and if so no doubt in future you will take the precaution of making a (perfectly legal) back up copy of any new CD. Meanwhile AFAIK it is unlikely that the scatches have in any way affected the actual digital information on the difficult to play CDs. So may I suggest the elementary step you could now try; if you have Musicmatch or any of the equivalent freeware CD programs you can very easily rip the tracks from the offending discs to your hard drive as full uncompressed wav format files from where you can then burn new replacement CDs
Piece of cake.
Another tip. If you rip to good quality mp3s say a minimum of 192 KBPS you can then make a simple text file by writing in the file names and saving the file as albumname.m3u . If say Musicmatch is your default mp3 player on your computer it will open the m3u file and proceed to play the tracks in the order you added them to the text file.
i do have a fine and well used bit of freeware called mp3folders that very conveniently if you run it then open the folder containing any mp3s it will list them in the order in that folder you can then save that list as an m3u or move the tracks around or even select "randomise" and save either for a change. The program's original site seems to have disappeared but recently after some determined googling I found an Italian site with the program file there to be downloaded
http://www.recoverypc.it/download.asp
just scroll down until you see the link
MP3FOLDERS (.zip 2 MB) Ascolta tutti i brani in sequenza in automatico.Da non perdere! so there
Another good feature of Musicmatch is that if you are online whilst playing a GL CD most of them are in the gracenote.com CDDB CD DataBase and instead showing track 1 etc the actual title will appear then when you rip to wav or mp3 the resulting file set is already correctly named
another piece of cake!!
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Yes I have a CD Burner.
I think I remember how to load downloaded songs (from Limewire) onto a disc, but still not sure about how to upload the songs from an actual CD. I wonder if it's possible to
upload a song that normally skips and then burn it onto a spare disc and it play like hit should...