Brian, Brian, and others, Okay, guys, I've gotten so far but no further with my rescue of the opera disk for my friend. I soaked the disk, removed the paper label, used WD40 to remove the label glue, used alcohol to clean it and the disk itself, then put it into iTunes, but there are a couple of noisy spots, so after burning a couple of disks from it, I made a .dmg file of it and am now trying to burn a copy from them and I've made two copies of the .dmg file (which I don't want) and as disks are expensive, I need more help. THE MISSING MANUAL is no help for this dummy...I'm running OS 10.3.9. How do I get it to make a copy of the music, not the .dmg? Then, my next step will be to try the Brasso cleaning of the original, but I'd like to see if the pops and other noises are on the .dmg first. Y'all are so helpful, but I'm stumped at this point, despite my reading. TIA, Pat