Audio Systems: CD Player in Sony MIDI HIFI, portable cd player, economic solution

Question
I should have said Micro not Midi since it is a SONY Micro HiFi model CMT-CP333. I have done as suggested, in fact the power has been off for 2 days but alas the CD player/programmer goes off into a world of its own on power up and trying to use it.
I'm not desparately impressed with the SONY reliability here as the system wasn't heavily used.



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We have had a SONY MIDI HiFi for about 30 months.  Suddenly, the CD Player(3 rack) has gone silly when scanning. When one has selected any particular CD, the lights of all 3 racks start flashing and the LED display goes mad showing random numbers and durations. Eventually, it will choose of its own accord a particular track on a CD(not necessarily the CD you chose if you have more than 1 CD in the system) and start to play it satisfactorily. If you try and move forward a track, it goes jumping about again ending up somewhere totally different in most cases. Sometimes when it completes a track, it will not choose the next sequential track but go and play a track.
Is this CD player up the spout?  
Is there anything I can do such as a cleaning device or has something serious broken?
My betting is that as the MIDI HiFi unit cost £250, it is questionable about the economics of repair - what do you think?
A cunning idea I picked up from one of the previous answers is using an auxilliary input, if there is one, to put an external little portable CD Player as an input. Is that the only economic solution?

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First, Try doing a hard reset.  This may cure it.

Just unplug the mains. Leave power OFF for at least half hour, then try again.  It may be a software thing; if so, this reset will cure it.

Otherwise, I think you are right about just using an inexpensive portable for listening to your CDs.  You can purchase them very inexpensively at Boots and other such places.

If you will give me the model number of the unit you now have I can give you a more precise answer.

Cleggsan


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Sorry the reset does not restore its functionality.

The IC that has the controller circuitry is likely defective and/or the eprom that drives it.  A repair may be too costly to justify.  So, a small portable cd player into the aux input is clearly the way to go.

Cheers,
Cleggsan