100-disc CD player

Last year we were able to use my old Aiwa 100-CD player to play Christmas CDs, although it did need a little "encourage" at times. This year,it really does not want to work. From what I can tell, it is a mechanical failure, not an electronic failure. I can see what it wants to do, but for some reason, it is not able to do it. It can work with a little assistance, but it requires assistance now every time you want to play a CD, so it makes using it quite impractical.

However, playing one CD at a time is also impractical when you want it as background music. Therefore, I decided to create mp3 files from the CDs. This being the first time for me to do so, it's actually quite simple. The only drawback would be for the disk space, but considering we have over 1 TB available for recorded TV shows, we can spare a few gigs for music. Having all your music available on your computer then make it quite simple to play what you want, whenever you want, and never have to search for CDs.

So even if I were to get the 100-CD player working again, it seems that having everything on a computer is much more convenient. Oooops, I shouldn't mention that to anyone to whom I might try to sell the CD player.

I thought that I bought the player in the late 80's, which would make the player almost 20 years old. (OK, 16 years old if it were bought in 1989.) However, it turns out this one was manufactured in January 1995, so it is one month from 11 years. I never used it to its full capacity. However, that is not too surprising for me. It's quite a nice looking piece of equipment with flashing lights for the elevator moving to load and unload CDs. The flashing lights are the main reason I bought it. You can even hook up multiple players together to get 200+ CD capacity. In fact, I was extremely tempted to buy other units. Good thing I managed to be patient in this case. Also very surprising for me.

Anyway, I can't quite get myself to throw it away yet, knowing that it seems that it is some mechanical failure which is preventing it from working. I was able to get a type of workaround using double-sided tape, but it only helped partially. With everything else I need to be doing, I'll put this unit away in storage for when I might have some free time to look at it again.

PS. Uhhh, anyone interested in buying a "partially working" 100-disc CD player?