On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 03:27:26PM -0600, Austad, Jay wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a utility for verifying MP3 files under Linux?  I
> > > had some disk corruption a while ago, and I'd like to find all of my
> > > broken sound files so I can re-rip and encode them.
> > 
> > xmms plus a wireless beam of acoustic waves to 2 human audio input
> > detectors.  :)
> 
> a friend of mine once gave me a really serendipitous piece of audio artwork.
> It was a .mod of Nine Inch Nails's "Head Like a Hole"; which someone had
> accidentally deleted, then recovered, with a good degree of corruption in
> the first few seconds. thing is, the corruption actually sounded *really
> cool* with that song. :) it was sort of a deep, grinding, crunching noise...
> turned out to be a good compliment to the original tune.

Had a roommate in college that had a Prince CD that skipped in some
*funky* ways.  It was way better than what he meant to write.

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