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in reply to Re: Perl Mp3 Player
in thread Perl Mp3 Player

It won't be perl/bash - the data in the mp3 will contain ansi escape characters or ^D (exit?), etc that will be harassing your poor terminal.

Redirect output to a file, and cksum the original/new files, they should match.