I was reviewing the documentation for Sox the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs, trying to append five seconds of silence to the end of my last recording project, and I found this tidbit:
earwax Makes audio easier to listen to on headphones. Adds ‘cues’ to 44.1kHz stereo (i.e. audio CD format) audio so that when listened to on headphones the stereo image is moved from inside your head (standard for headphones) to outside and in front of the listener (standard for speakers). See http://www.geocities.com/beinges for a full explanation.
Yeah, that’s right, the full explanation lived on a Geocities site, not as in-program documentation. :-( This is why man is quickly falling behind to extensible systems like docbook.
As a side note, I have some hope to one day find the explination of how earwax works at Asheesh and the Archive team’s http://geociti.es as geociti.es/beinges.