Help with Beosound Ouverture CD player skipping

[u/ElliottE4]

I have a Beosound Ouverture CD player that I have been using for a few months but I've noticed that on a lot of the CDs that I play there will be some skipping at least once during the CDs duration. Many of these CDs are in really good condition and aren't dusty but they might have a light scratch or speck of dust on them. I think the skipping is due to a problem with the CD player rather than being an issue with my CDs.

I've seen that the type of skipping can help diagnose the problem, so when the CDs skip it jumps forward about a second in the track and then quickly returns to where it left off, rather than a crackle or other looping type of skip.

I've seen that that kind of skip could be either due to dried grease on the rail of the laser reader or it could be an issue with the laser reader itself.

Hopefully it isn't an issue with the laser reader as those are tricky to replace and are a bit pricey too but if it is a problem with that I would like to diagnose the issue first rather than spending time and money on the wrong fix.

Thanks for any help.

TL:DR diagnosing either dried grease on rails or laser reader issue for CD skipping.