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Causes of CD player skipping?

Hello,
I own a Sony CDP-M555ES 400 CD megachanger that has began skipping pretty badly, especially on tracks 1, 2, and sometimes 3. The problem seems worse with CD-R's and CD-RW's. The tracks will begin playing, and then the player will skip to another place on the track, to the beginning of the track, or to another track.
I tried cleaning the laser lens and this did not work.
Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Thanks for your help.
daltonlanny

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moolimdo
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So here's a weird one-
I cleaned and re greased the optical rails on my 200 CD Sony. Still skipped. As I was moving it, I lifted the back left end up (where the optical assy is located) which took the weight off the back left foot. It started playing fine, no skipping. I then Placed a spacer under the back side, just enough to take the back left foot off the tabletop. So far is playing fine.
Somehow the back foot of the case is tied in and stressing the optical assy to go out of alignment(?)
It's playing, so don't care at this point.


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