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My CD player won’t read CDs will not even go to the first track. It just makes a whirring sound.
pdkenyon, possibly a dirty laser lens. Try any of the commercially available CD/DVD lens cleaners and see if that works. If not, you are having to think about replacing th Laser unit, or the complete drive.
If possible, try another player/computer. My copy of the Talking Heads Fear of Music was not recognized by my desktop computer DVD drive but was read fine in an older computer.