Once upon a time, when CDs were still relatively new, manufacturers had a problem: the suckers would deteriorate no matter how carefully they were stored.
"CD rot," as the phenomenon is called, looks nasty. Check the "play" side of your older CDs. If you see blackish, ugly spots, you have a problem. This can happen even if you were careful to store your collection in a friendly environment, without abusing any of the discs. The CDs are just defective, as it turns out.
Eventually, that problem went away. You shouldn't experience CD rot with newer discs.
You can, however, try to copy the affected discs to your computer's hard drive. If this works, you can burn a new copy and enjoy that - or transfer the files to your MP3 player and listen that way.
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