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I bought a Sony D-CJ01 Discman back in 2001 when they were new. In addition to audio CDs, it can play MP3 files burned to a data CD-R or -RW. But after sitting in storage for years, and realizing that batteries were left in it for most of that time, can I get it working again?  

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Fixing My Sony MP3 Discman

I bought a Sony D-CJ01 Discman back in 2001 when they were new. In addition to audio CDs, it can play MP3 files burned to a data CD-R or -RW. But after sitting in storage for years, and realizing that batteries were left in it for most of that time, can I get it working again? ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Lakey Inspired (http://www.soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired) and Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com).

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Anonymous

Very cool! I had a Panasonic SL-CT800 MP3 portable CD player in 2003. Still have it today, in near mint condition with the box still. Still working great!

Anonymous

Thank you very much for this one, I was really waiting for it 😬 Are you sure about your capacitors? I have a lot of older DiscMan and nearly each time my display problems came from capacitors. Anyway, I really like your series on audio devices. Really enjoyable ! Take care and thank you very much!

thisdoesnotcompute

I might give replacing them a shot, but probably off-camera. The caps likely power things other than just the display, so I'd expect to see some other performance problems with the player if they were the culprit. But who knows!