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why does my mp3 player keep skipping in my car?

ok heres the situation...my car has a radio which works perfectly fine but no cd player so i bought one of those cassette tape mp3 player adapters. when i use it it works fine and sounds great except for some reason several times during a song it'll stop playing for a couple seconds then start playing again...any idea why this may be?

Update:

its not cds like i said i dont have a cd player its a mp3 player hooked up to a cassette player adapter

and first i bought a cheap one which was garbage than a more expensive one which is the one give me the above issues

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Was it a really cheap adaptor? Sounds like it has a loose connection, they're usually really good.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    CD participant skipping - any recommendations My CD participant has immediately started to pass. The difficulty is with the player now not the CDs - its doing it on a variety of CDs all of which can be normal pre-recorded commercially manufactured CDs that are easy and in good condition. It doesn't do it on every CD but on rather a couple of and i suppose the hindrance is growing. The player is a relatively good excellent Technics which I feel is set five or six years ancient. It'll simply need some form of cleaning disc performed through it however I don't know so much about them. Any strategies? __________________ might be a vibration quandary - how stable are the ft ? Are you able to are trying blutack or an identical under toes or one more surface? Does the skipping occur only at starting of cd play or for the duration of play? Do not feel balance is the drawback Pete. CD sits on prime of a tape deck, on high of an awfully heavy wooden desk. The ground of the room is concrete. Additionally it's been within the identical role for the last 5 or 6 years and has by no means occurred earlier than. I'll assess it out anyway. The skipping re-happens correct for the duration of the CD at various random facets. Thanks for taking the time to answer Pete.

  • 9 years ago

    Usually those walkman style CD Players are not stable. The Anti skip protection or read buffer suck compared to actual car stereo's.

    If you move the cd player around, a lot of car vibration, or if you have loud bass, or something like that can cause the cd player to "skip".

    So you can try to keep it stabilized and not move it around as best as you can.

    Otherwise it is what it is. It rarely gets better.

    Another potential reason it skips, is if the CD's are scratched or dirty, or the laser is dirty in the CD Player. Clean your CD's try to buff out the scratches and use a CD cleaner to clean your reader.

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    EDIT: Sorry my bad...I misunderstood.

    What it most LIKELY is then is that the heads on your "tape cassette" reader could be dirty.

    Or are not aligned properly. The other issue is if the heads are shot...then you would need to replace the deck.

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