Rowe Ami CD-51 HELP PLEASE

[weakleg22]

Hi! 

Here's our story.  We bought a working Rowe Ami CD-51 Jukebox from a thrift shop.  The shop owner's buddy has an arcade business who fixes them up.  They installed a lock on the front that was missing before (to open it up).  We are waiting to hear back from that man to ask him a few questions, but I thought I'd try here first.  Here they are:

1.) He has a free play code to give us.  Are they all the same, unique?  How does that work, we enter it? etc.
2.) The only keys we were given were for the front glass lift that I described above, so how do we empty the cash box to get our ones back? We see two other locks, one on the box and one on the bottom right outside.  Which would we use?
3.) Does the '51' imply that it only holds 51 cds? It looks like it hold much more, but perhaps not.
4.) How do we turn the cd holder to replace/add cds?  (some slots are empty and most all of the CDs are burned and skip)
5.) A lot of times the song we select won't play, we think b/c the cd is bad, or is missing, so we have a whole lot of work ahead to get this full of working cds...anything we need to know?
6.)Can someone explain the numbering on the wheel that hold the cds?  I see it goes to like 97 or 98, but skips numbers-we just need an understanding
7.) I found a Rowe Ami CD-51 1990 manual on ebay, will that work for this jukebox that says on the back sticker it was manufactured in 1992?

Thank you soooo much! 

[weakleg22]

UPDATE!  I learned that the 1990 Rowe Ami CD-51 Manual will work for our Jukebox, just bought it on Ebay. I assume most of my questions above will be answered with that manual or the guy that worked on it for us.


However,  Can someone take a look at these pictures?  Something doesn't seem right, but we are total rookies.  I still have much confusion on the number of CDs that this thing holds.  All images of a CD51 via google show the sheets with the CD artwork and the playlist.  So I see 3 cd's per sheet (one side)  This jukebox we bought has two playlists on each sheet...so 6 per sheet.  I'm super confused.  Here is an image of ours vs google.  Can anyone confirm that something is actually wrong? 

[ami-man]

Hello Kelli,

Welcome to the forum.

When you get your manual spend a lot of time to read it fully from cover to cover a couple of times so you can appreciate the terms used in it.

You will find that the CD-51 hold 100 CD's

There are variations on the glasses dependant on what year it was manufactured.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK

[weakleg22]

Thank you very much!  It was just delivered last night and it's THICK!  I MAY be back in a year with further questions after we read it. haha! 

[jdemarti]

The reason why you see two cards for each page slot is because there are not enough title pages to hold 100 title cards, unlike the CD100 models. so the previous owner just doubled up on the cards per page to fit it all in. 

However, both the CD100 and CD51 models will play up to 100 cds.

[weakleg22]

Thank you very, very much!  You guys are very helpful.  I hope to get this puppy's catalog cleaned up and revamped and report back with some positive vibes!!