My Aiwa zr 220 will not read normal CD's. I have used a lens cleaner and it does play the introduction and sample music to test the speakers from the lens cleaner CD only. How is it possible that it will play the music track on the lens cleaner but not normal CDs? Any help would be very much appreciated.
An 8+ year old CDP doesn't owe you anything. Maybe time to get a new CD player... or you could go the digital route with a PC and a digital to analog converter.
Have you tried various types / titles of CD's? Have your tried brand new CD's i.e. those in good condition with no scratches on them? How about burned CD's? It is strange that it would work on the test/cleaning CD but not other CD's and the only thing I could chalk to to would be that your test/cleaning CD is in much better shape then the other CD's.