CD player cleaning.


Hi,
Is there any maintenance required for a CD player? I have an Acurus player that refused to play any CD's the other day and then when it did it would just skip from track to track. It's working fine again and I was thinking dirt on the lens. Should I be cleaning the lens regularly? Thanks for any info.
Paul.
peleon
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.
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?)