>> Now try doing that with a sound that's been LZW-compressed. ;-)
>>
>> Doesn't sound very nice...
> 
> I imagine it's about as pleasing as loading an MP3 as a raw PCM audio 
> file and playing it.

Yes.

Indeed, *any* data compressed with an efficient compression algorithm 
should sound roughly like white noise. If it doesn't, further 
compression should be possible.

> For some reason this one audio app I have 
> recognizes every MP3 correctly, except for a handful of files from one 
> particular album. Weird.

Maybe the audio app is looking for the ID3 tag or something, and these 
few files don't have one? Who knows...

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