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In <200304131953.59231.soralx@cydem.org.ua>, soralx@cydem.org.ua typed:
> > I'm beginning to believe these things aren't real mp3 files.
> It's certainly not. The funny thing is that nobody tried to
> view this file with 'hd' or editor:

Without knowing what a real mp3 file should look like, anything beyond
"file" - which I tried, having seen avi files with an mp3 extension -
doesn't do me any good.

> That's 50.15998980982979046610275935505200% compression rate! :)
> Not bad for a MPEG Layer 3 file with Huffman coding, is it?

That, on the other hand, is pretty telling. I wonder what the things
really are?

	<mike
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