Optical drive rejecting most disks

As of late, my optical drive has been increasingly hit-or-miss with accepting disks (DVD or CD). Often times, when I insert a disk, the drive attempts to read it, unsuccessfully, for about 10 seconds, spinning up and then stopping multiple times, before finally rejecting and ejecting the disk. At first, this only happened with a single DVD that was very scratched up anyway, so I didn't think it a major problem. However, my drive has over time started rejecting more and more disks until now, when my drive won't even accept blank CDs, and I'm lucky if I can get an audio CD to read properly, regardless of how much it has or has not been used. There are even some disks that will go in one day but might be rejected another, but seeing as some disks that my computer accepts are more scratched up than others which it rejects, I really don't know what to think anymore.
Help?

They sell optical drive cleaners, it's a cd with small brushes that clean the lens of the laser inside the actual optical disc drive. I'd start by trying to clean it with one of these.

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