Okay, I have ripped the Xenia audio from my CD and have it as a 3.6mb .wma file. Anybody want it? Simply shoot me a PM with your email addy and I will mail it to you (or give instructions for whatever other method you want to use). It sounds good, though I have only listened to it on my laptop using earphones, and the fidelity of that is just *okay*, so it may have lost a smidgeon from compression, but not that I can tell. Only caveat is that I can't send until tomorrow night... long story, LOL.
Edit: I first tried to rip using VLC player, but that seems to have been beyond my talent level. So I switched to Windows Media Player, which gave me the .wma option. I went back and reset the format to .wav, which acording to Bill Gates is "Lossless", then re-ripped, so now it is a 39.4 MB file, but should have no compression, I guess.
It is a 3:54 recording. You hear the roar right from the beginning. A couple times early on you hear what is believed to be a train whistle from off in the distance. Thunder rips the sky. At 2:51 you hear the microphone set down as the operator leaves to get in his shelter. Throughout, the roar intensifies. At 3:21 is the screeching sound of what is believed to be nails being ripped out as the roof is coming off. Finally, the recording ends as the tape recorder is destroyed. The guy who recorded it was said to have survived.
Those descriptions are from the website where I originally downloaded the recording many years ago, but they seem 100% plausible.
Another edit: For the public record, this recording is copyright of the original "artist", or his estate, whomever that is. Treat with respect.
