Scratched CD toothpaste trick

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Heya guys, hoping you can help...

I tend to carry CD's about in the car a lot, and some of my favourites are now getting pretty scratched up. My car's CD player is more forgiving than the one in the house too, so it's kinda worse than I thought.

So, I was thinking about trying out that technique where you carefully use toothpaste to clean the CD, but the toothpaste I use is whitening toothpaste...do you think it would be too abrasive, or is it worth a try anyway? If the worst comes to the worst, I think most of them are saved on my dad's computer but I'd like to have the originals if possible.

Any tips appreciated!

Cheers

Aeth xx

Toothpase might be a bit too abrasive. I've heard of a product called 'Displex', which is basically a gel that you can rub into LCD screens, which smooths the edges of the scratches, making them less visible. I'm not sure if it's safe for CDs though.

Rip the CD's using CDex
Burn your music onto a empty disc, and use those in the car instead. if you rip at highest quality, you wont be able to hear a difference. and keep the originals at home. Then they'll last longer

I got a CD cleaning kit from a local store and managed to save some of my favourite CDs. It came with 2 sets of wet wipes, one that takes off the protective layer under the CD and the other one puts a new protective layer. Usually scratches don't go further than the protective layer, so it works great. Can't think of the brand name...

Haha, yeah, that's my plan if I can rescue the ones I've got! My poor dilapidated laptop seems to have an aversion to music files and crashes painfully if I try and rip a CD (I've tried various players) so I gotta get my dad to do it on his computer. Last time I tried to get him to do it, it was a faulty batch of CDs, so they wouldn't play properly/at all, depending on the player. We only found out after he'd done 10 of them.

Some people have all the luck But yeah, I plan on keeping the originals safe in future!

I use toothpaste. You just put it on the disk, and wipe out from the centre, NOT in a circular pattern like you'd think.

It's only a temp fix, but it gets them decent enough to rip.

I haven't had any luck with the toothpaste trick or cleaning/repair kits. I have noticed that the newer drives and players seem to be more forgiving of scratches. Maybe it's time for an upgrade?

its not to abrasive, it works fine, toothpaste or very fine sand paper work well, the data is stored in the metal, and the scratches are in the plastic, so you are just polishing the cd, also if you run it under very hot water and wipe it, and repeat this until it removes scratches, it works too