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My (admittedly-beloved) 2015 F-150 will reboot Sync if I'm listening to music (usually on Soundcloud) if the song title includes non-ASCII characters.

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I'm reminded of: ( https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-roman-mars-mazda-... ) the Mazda head unit being allergic to Roman Mars.

Or Janet Jackson's song Rhythm Nation crashing some old laptop hard drives, due to the hard drives' resonant frequency. The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220920-00/?p=10...

The concept of technology being unable to handle some input as an "allergy" for some reason makes me giggle.

Awesome, a real world example of the phonograph-destroying record from the book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" ! What a time to be alive! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

My 2011 Ford Focus with Sync would randomly lock up and loop the same 10th of a second of the current track. Like a really old PC if it crashed while playing a sound.

Turning the car and back on again to stop the noise got old really fast. All of the radio inputs stopped working when this happened.

Hey, ring buffer... I want you to play this, and I'm going to give you more data, just keep looping the buffer.

Oops, I forgot to give you more data... or tell you to stop... >:)

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