Maxell CD-AUTO Automobile CD Lens Cleaner by Maxell
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Digital camera reviews of Maxell CD-AUTO Automobile CD Lens Cleaner
Digital camera Review: Affordable solution
Summary: 4 Stars
My car CD player was making some weird noises when playing music and had disc errors which were the worst because I couldn't even play the CD when these errors happened. The weird noises were a more common problem though. I bought this product in hopes to fix the issues. After playing the cleaner many, many times (sometimes 5 times right after each other) it seems to have improve my CD player. The problem isn't completely gone but this cleaner has definitely reduced the frequency of the problem.
For the low price it is worth a try before doing more expensive fixes like getting your system professionally cleaned or replacing it altogether. I would have given it 5 stars if it completely fixed my problem but it has improved the problem enough that I am no longer in a hurry to get a new car audio system. For best results you do have to use this product every so often to keep your CD player clean. You might also have to use the product many times in the beginning like I did in order to see results. I just permanently leave this clean in my car for when I need it.
Digital camera Review: Auto CD Player Cleaner
Summary: 4 Stars
The cleaner ran like it was supposed to so I guess it worked. There really is no way to tell if it helped or not i guess.Digital camera Review: Awsome
Summary: 5 Stars
This Cd cleaner is a really great product. Im not super technically advanced and most burned cd's that I have are made from others. The cd player in my car was skipping and I purchased this to fix it. Its easy to use and after it was done I have no problem with any of my cd's; burned or otherwise. It was a great buy at a great price and I would definatly recommend it!Digital camera Review: CD Burning Tips
Summary: 5 Stars
These brush cleaner CD's do work, believe it or not. Perhaps not quite the same as having your system professionally serviced, but why waste more money than you may have to. This is a worthy investment to look into first - because these do work most of the time (and it's always a good idea to have one for continued preventative maintenance anyway). If you're getting play errors or severe skipping of your CD's, you might be amazed at how much one of these can help.
But here's a few tips for those of you making audio CD's on their home computers and having trouble playing them on some machines... It may not be a defective or dirty player at all.
First, it may be best to turn off any other programs you may have running in the background. This will give your CD burner full resources to do its burning job. Also, make sure your screensaver is turned off. If it starts up in the middle of a job, the laser burn may be interrupted and cause errors. So shut down all other programs and the screensaver too.
Second, it may do you well to defrag your hard drive before starting a burn. If you have a pretty fast PC, this may not be a big problem, but it may adversely affect the read data process if your computer has to search all over the hard drive to find pieces of the media files before burning them on the disk. I personally have an auto defrag program installed on my computer that runs constantly keeping my system running at its optimum.
Third, I recommend NOT copying CD's "on the fly" (in other words, directly from disk to disk). Copy the audio files to your hard drive first. Most CD burning software have a "create image" option - use that and then burn the image to a blank CD. If your using Nero, just turn off the "on the fly" option and the music files will copy to the hard disk first and then to the CD automatically. By-the-way, you may want to read my review on Amazon about Nero. It is, in my opinion, the best burning software available! Since I started using Nero, I do not know the meaning of the word "coaster" or "frisbee."
Fourth, ALWAYS burn CD's in DAO mode (Disc At Once). This will insure there is no gap between songs(TAO - Track At Once - usually leaves a 2 second gap between songs and causes the laser to have to stop burning momentarily between songs), but more importantly, using DAO will insure that the laser continues to burn constantly throughout the whole CD copying process.
Finally, and most importantly (in my opinion), make sure you don't burn CD's at anything faster than 12x! In fact, if you're playing CD's on an older system, burn the CD at 8x or even slower. If you still have trouble, take the speed all the way down to 1 or 2x. It can make a big difference. Yes, I know it means you won't be using the full potential of your zippy 52x burner, but you just have to figure out what is more important - fast burning or being able to actually listen to what your burning?
Most newer CD players have very little or no problem at all playing CD's burned on a computer at the highest speed; however, this is not often the case with much older units. As a general rule it is always better to burn audio disks slower.
You may also want to make sure you're using Audio CD certified media. That may help a little bit too. The brand of media may be a factor also. Sometimes the cheaper CD's may have a higher failure rate. I've heard this from some people. Personally, I have not had too much trouble with cheaper CD's... Usually, if the steps I have already mentioned are followed, cheap media will work fine. That has been my experience anyway. But different burners may be a factor as well and you may want to try some different brands of media until you find one that seems to work best for you. Using quality name brand media is probably a safe bet and may be your best course of action.
Good luck! :)
Digital camera Review: CD cleaners for autos
Summary: 5 Stars
After the first use I noticed a lot of dirt on the brushes that it took off of the cd lens, it was really dirty.