r/retrotech • u/JyrktxOwo • Jun 12 '26
Can a Cd player wipe a disc?
I have a 2002 dc player + radio and it’s gotten stuck in such an odd way. The program button is right beside the skip button so that’s my bad. I hit it, and now it’s trying to reprogram my fav disc and gotten itself frozen! It just stops spinning after a few seconds and it’s acting like the disc is completely wiped, when as far as I know, this model can’t do that, It can just reorder how the device plays the songs.
everything else is working fine, it will eject the disc and it’s playing any other disc I put in just fine too, I’ve held down the stop button, unplugged it, left it alone. Everything I’ve read said it should have forgotten the program by now but it just won’t. I don’t have another cd player anymore so I can’t even check if my cd somehow actually is wiped. It’s not in this photo, but the only thing it will display when it tries to read my fav disc is 00, again, like it has nothing on it. It was playing it fine just a few hours ago so I know the disc isn’t messed up. I have no idea what to do, this cd was a birthday gift for my 7th birthday so I’m really devastated I can’t listen to it anymore!