"micky" wrote in message
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The CD player in my car worked well 2 months ago but last week I just
got Track Search, or Error, something like that.

Changed CD, same problem

Rest of radio works well.

Bought a Maxell CD cleaner. Amazingly, it looks like a CD but has two
little brushes on it.

It's supposed to give audio instructions when you "play" it. How can it
do this if the laser or receiver lens is too dirty to work?

At any rate, I ran it 4 or 5 times and it doesn't say anything.

Is that enough evidence to firmly conclude it's broken and cleaning
won't help?

Very likely but not certain.

Do you smoke ? If you do you may well find that you
can open the player up and clean the lens with some
isopropyl alcohol or just metho if you don't have that
and get the muck that smokers produce off the lens.
A brush wont do that.

The Maxell CD was 6 dollars, and got high Amazon ratings.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._title_o01_s00
4.1 stars on 5700 ratings.

They sell two others, Memorex and Optimum, for 10
and 14 dollars, also with high ratings. But isn't buying
one of them throwing good money after bad?

Really depends on whether you are a smoker or not.