how goes my sun tanned CD's? ;-D

I have officially admitted defeat.

Cleaning the damage caused by the suntan lotion was trivial. However, the CDs were in such bad condition otherwise with deep scratches running radially, and irregular blemishes a quarter inch across that I could not get them to play error free. I was able to get them to where I could rip and encode all the tracks, but some of the tracks still have artifacts and skips.

Oddly, the CDs appear playable now -- I have CDs that look worse that play with no problems. But I cannot make them work perfectly.

tanstaafl.