CD skipping issues after being cued on CDJs

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Posted by Dojomaster26 on Dec-10-2008 23:19:

CD skipping issues after being cued on CDJs

I've noticed that with CDs that I use to mix with, after playing them in a pair of CDJs, will skip at the points where I cued the CDs. The most recent instance of this was after mixing at a friend's place, on a pair of 800s. Playing the same CD in my car stereo resulted in heavy skipping on the same track that I used, at ~ the 1 second mark (where I cued the track). All of the other tracks on the disc have no skips, and the disc is clean, has no scratches, etc.

The CD used was a CD-R.

Any ideas as to why this kind of skipping is happening? Is there something I can do to keep my CDs from skipping after going through CDJs?

Posted by Emvy on Dec-12-2008 05:39:

Which CDJs do you have?

Posted by Jarvmeister on Dec-13-2008 14:45:

If I understand correctly, what you're saying is that you take a burned CD that works fine, and after you cue it in a CDJ and then play it in a player where it previously worked fine, it now skips.

If it does this no matter which CDJ you play it in, you must have ultra shit media: change your CDRs. Somehow the [quite powerful] reading laser on the CDJ is damaging the data on your CDR.

If it only does this after playing on your friends 800: get him to have his 800 looked over. Perhaps the laser on his CDJ is over powerful and is damaging the data on your CDR.

This is the weirdest problem with CDs I've ever heard - but my troubleshooting has logic.

Posted by PutBoy on Dec-14-2008 12:40:

I can't understand how this would happen. No reading laser should be able to do anything to anything ;S

Posted by Jarvmeister on Dec-14-2008 14:57:

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Originally posted by PutBoy
I can't understand how this would happen. No reading laser should be able to do anything to anything ;S

You're right, but it's possible there's a fault with either the media or the CDJ. Given what he's said, I can't see it being a problem with anything else......!

Posted by DJ RANN on Dec-14-2008 23:21:

This is well strange. Are you saying these tracks before hand played perfectly in the car, but once they had been cued on a cdj 800 the would skip at the exact cue points?

The laser on a CDJ 800 should in no way damage the CD unless they really are the shittest media ever made.

What brand of media are they?

Do the other non-cued tracks on the CD skip as well or is it only the ones where you had the track on a cue?

Did you happen to have it parked on that cue point for excessive time (like more than 5 minutes - but not that it would make a difference anyway because even a stationary class 1 laser should not be able to damage a CDR.).

Are you sure they're not really cheap cdrw's?

Posted by Dojomaster26 on Dec-16-2008 01:02:

The CD-Rs are Office Depot ones. I've used these, Memorex, Khypermedia, and Staples brand CD-Rs, and they've all been the same except for the labels on top. The brands I stay away from are Dynex and the other brands that have no labels, or are WAY too cheap to be reliable.

This particular problem has happened once before with my 200s, and now with my friend's 800s.

The other tracks on the CD do not skip, which is why I think it could be a CDJ issue. On the skipping track, the skipping happens on the cue point and for a few seconds after it.

The skipping track was cued for ~3 minutes while being prepped to be mixed in. Also, some cue point fine tuning was done (moving the starting frame of the cue point).

Jarv has the same thought process on this as I do. It just seems odd that two different models of CDJs, using what I believe to be two different models of CD-Rs, are causing the same issue. Maybe I just need to burn separate CDs for car and CDJ use?

PutBoy: I've seen burns on DVDs after being tossed into problematic PS2s, but I've never seen a CDJ damage a CD before.