How to fix CD?

it's sacrilidge on here to say this, but I have fixed many a cd and DVD with the DiscDR RX. Loud, and crude, but it works in most cases.

I had an Elton John ...To Be Continued disc (no. 2 with all the best songs on it) that hadn't played correctly in 10 plus years, that was fixed with the Disc Dr RX.

Of course, then rip all the songs to a hard drive with a hgih sample rate such as FLAC or WAV and don't worry about it again.

Thanks for your answers and help, folks! I'm not into computer audio however. In another 2-3 years it'll be better settled out, IMO.

Can anyone suggest how you rip and burn a cd and make it sound good? I've tried slow rips and burns on high quality cd-r's and they sound horrible. I'm using Windows Media Player.

Try to burn this CD and play recorded CD-R instead.

I have found that using a cd treatment can help with cd's that are scratched. I use the auric by audience. It really works, it helps the quality of the sound, the bass response and the clarity, but as a secondary benifit, on a few of my cd's from my youth (which I didn't care for as well) I found that thet dont skip at all. It treats 200 to 300 cds permanently. and costs less than 60$ That would be an easy fix. Try it.