On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 14:26, Dave Phillips wrote: > One of my students came to his lesson without his tunes CD this week. > It's a home-burned disc, he put it in his in-car player (an older Sony > 6-disc unit) and the player refused to recognize it. Worse, the player > refused to disgorge the disc. So, does anyone know how to get a CD out > of a player mounted in the dashboard of a car ? Automotive CD players I've worked on have a 'feature' to eject CD's after a battery disconnect. Others specify holding the eject key for a long time, or holding eject upon battery connection. Such a feature depends on the car manufacturer being (rightly) paranoid to specify such behaviour. YMMV. R