# CD Player That Programs To Skip Tracks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205 "2016-06-01T03:21:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/1 "2016-06-01T03:21:15Z")
It’s been since the 90’s since I bought a CD player, so bear with me. I’m wondering if they ever came out with a CD player that can be programmed to skip tracks that you don’t want to listen to. I know you can skip them by programming the tracks that you do want to listen to, but if there’s over 20 tracks, it would be easier just to program the one or two to skip, and even if there’s less than a dozen tracks it may be just more convenient to program the skipped tracks. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/2 "2016-06-01T03:42:18Z")
mp3s kind of took away the need for a programmable CD player like you describe ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/3 "2016-06-01T03:50:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > mp3s kind of took away the need for a programmable CD player like you describe This. Just rip the few songs you want. OR, play your CD in your computer (I like winamp (do they still exist?)), and modify the playlist the way you want. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/4 "2016-06-01T04:41:11Z")
I’ve only seen players that work the other way. You program which tracks you want to hear. If you wanted to skip one or two, you’d need to instead program for it to play all the other ones. But the skip track function would probably be more useful since that’s what I’d usually want it do anyway. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/5 "2016-06-01T06:24:04Z")
If you really want to retain the CD format, why not dupe the CD, omitting the tracks you don’t want? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/6 "2016-06-01T11:44:33Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > If you really want to retain the CD format, why not dupe the CD, omitting the tracks you don’t want? Bingo. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/7 "2016-06-01T20:48:24Z")
I used to have a CD player like the OP describes. It remembered CDs - not sure how, maybe by total length and number of tracks? - and you could tell it to always skip this track or that, while playing the rest of the CD in normal fashion. This is either a CD player that I bought in 1995, or it’s a DVD/CD player I bought in 2003. If the former, I no longer have it; if the latter, I still have it, but thanks to streaming video and MP3s, it’s been years since I used it, so I’m really not sure. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/8 "2016-06-01T21:27:48Z")
Use the remote? ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/9 "2016-06-01T21:32:10Z")
Stick your fingers in your ears. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/10 "2016-06-01T22:37:36Z")
I still have one of [these](http://www.crutchfield.com/S-6pTCn5JX4om/p_156CDPX235/Sony-CDP-CX235.html) from the early '90s. The track “delete” function was implemented well. The advantage over custom-burn jobs is that you can decide which tracks to drop from the playlist one by one, as they came up. Cancel the delete bank anytime to restore the full discs. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cd-player-that-programs-to-skip-tracks/756205/11 "2016-06-04T00:10:31Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > If you really want to retain the CD format, why not dupe the CD, omitting the tracks you don’t want? You could even replace them with songs you DO like from other albums.