I would think it just depends on the player. My CD player (Sony 5-disc) is over 8 years old and still works great, although the jukebox mode gets wonkier every year. Now it usually can't go 5 songs without fucking up a whole disc - it picks up the disc, can't play it for whatever reason, then dumps the whole thing from memory (I have to open/close the CD drawer to reset it).
Maybe try moving your player to a more stable location? You might also be having trouble with scratched discs... time to burn some new copies.
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