In sci.electronics.repair micky wrote:
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?

For an automtive CD player, yes. It's dead, move on. If you can get the
thing out of the dashboard and take it apart, you might have a chance, but
if it just died a sudden death, it's probably not work fussing with.