Fix and demo of my Sony CDP-295 (my first CD player)

This is the first CD player I ever bought sometime in the early 90s, maybe 1991 or 1992, for AU$300 I believe. I wanted to quickly demo two neat features that I used a lot "back in the day" but it wasn&working ("no disc" error). Luckily it was a simple fix - clean the laser&lens (see link at bottom). Both features relate to dubbing a CD onto Compact Cassette - you have the CD for listening to at home but you only had a cassette player in your car. First, how to best use the tape capacity? Tapes were typically C-60 (30-min per side) or C-90 (45-min per side) here in Australia. If your CD was 45-min or less then you could essentially fit two CDs onto one C-90 tape - simple. But how about CDs that were 50+ minutes in length? Well, you could note the length of each track and manually try to arrange them - fiddly. Well this CD player would figure out the best sequence of tracks for you - just tell it the length of a side and it&create a program to play Side A, pause for you to change sides on the cassette, then play Side B. Too easy! I vaguely remember that you could even buy tapes in a variety of other lengths in Japan for this purpose ... the max. length of CD was generally 74-min (yes, longer exist) so you could buy a C-74 tape with 37-min per side to perfectly (hopefully) fit a full CD. The second feature was the peak search: the player would scan the CD and identify the loudest part of the CD and then loop the 5s around the section. You could then adjust the...