Today while driving my cd started to skip, something that never happened before not to mention it was a brand new cd that was playing. After the message came up the radio came on so i fliped it back to cd and changed the dis. The cd error message came up and the radio came back on. Once i had a chance to stop the car i ejected the magazine checked the disc and put it back in and started the car. The changer didn't initialize as usual and the same no cd in changer message came up. Is this a simple cleaning problem or is my changer shot?

Hello...

Brand new FACTORY or brand new HOMEMADE?
Some homemade discs are not the same spec as factory and do not play well in my car.
Further, discs that include data sometimes do not play well in my car.
Additionally, there are CD/DVD discs that my player sometimes does not recognize.

A good shot of air (from a can- not a compresssor) can't hurt.
Make sure the disc is clean (always wipe in a straight line- they play from the center outward).

FWIW

I agree with Eldwagg.

I burned a spanking new CD-RW and I got that error on my unit. I then swapped it out and kept getting the same error. I had to put a clean, CD-R, into the main console and it sort of reset the system. It then initialized my changer and with the CD-RW out everything worked fine.

I hadn't it happen on the Cadillac yet but it happened on my Honda. With the new Enhanced CDs that come with data and specifically piracy protection a lot of old units are having a hard time reading them.

Try using a CD you know has worked in the main console see if it resets it like it did for me.

Thanks for the info, the majority of my CDs are burned, but there are a couple of originals in there specifically the brand new one that the unit stopped working with. I'll thry taking them out but what wrries me is you can't hear the dics changing when you put the magazine back in.

Pull the plug at the changer, replace the plug, put the cartridge in, that should initialize the sequencing. CD's can be formatted in much the same way 3 1/2 floppy discs were and that may be needed in your case. When burning, use only R discs, that insures the formatting. Depending on what program you are using, many programs "Prepare" disc for recording. All the info going onto the disc is for playback only and any playback unit should recognize the encoding. The manufacture's of both the changer and the discs doen't all talk to each other and there is no universal code to assure recording and playback. Then again the date of manufacture may have something to do with it too. Again, the manufacture's decide when it's time to change things for any number of reasons, one of which is to "update", therefore rendering what you have useless. so, there really are no guarentee's. We were lucky to have casettes for so long before CD's. Now it's MP3, and then it will be............?
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Thanks again, in away I kinda did that and more. I took the whole changer out and took it apart( to see what moves) then connected back up. Once I put the magazine in it started loading the disc but they didn't spin. I tried spinning the disc myself and nothing happened. ejected the magazine and put it back in and the samething happened. I remembered in one of the responses that the cds reads from the middle first. I moved the little gear on the piece that moves the lense and walah it started spinning and started to initialze. what happened i don't have the slightest idea. I ejected the magazine like 5 more times and it worked everytime. dissconnected the changer and put the case and bracket back on. Sounds crazy but atleast i dont have to shell out $$$$$ to get a new one.wouldn't recommend doing that but i did it with the assumption that i had to replace it anyway. :tisk: