CD player cleaning.

No. It was probably a hair or something like that. Keep the CDs you put in clean and you won't have any problems. After almost 20 years of CD playing, I have started to use a fine quality brush to wisk the dust off my CDs and DVDs before every play. I keep the brush in an envelope to keep IT free of dust too.

Thanks Elizabeth, I'll put the Simple Green and steel wool away.
Paul.

What about lens cleaning? Will a dirty lens cause skipping? If you have a CDP that skips on any disc played, will a CD lens cleaner remedy the problem? And, if this doesn't cure the problem, is there an alignment process? (Like the alignment of a phono cartridge?)

i just read an article in the back of last months stereophile mag on laser allignment! it said what it was all about and what u need but didnt say how to go about it step by step..
so i wrote to the guy that wrote the article and he's getting back with me in a week or two after his time off and i could foward you whatever he sends me on laser allignment.