# How Not To Generate A CRC

DevFeed: [How Not To Generate A CRC](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-not-to-generate-a-crc-19688.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://bandcamptech.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/how-not-to-generate-a-crc/>)

Author: Joe Holt

Published: 2010-01-21T18:48:09Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Bandcamp](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bandcamp.md>)

Topics: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>), [Cache](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cache.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>), [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>)

Tags: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>), [uncategorized](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uncategorized.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes a Bandcamp download outage caused by a sudden surge in demand for a popular mashup album and worsened by a production bug related to generating stable CRCs. It introduces Bandcamp's on-demand audio-format conversion and caching system, though the supplied text ends before the full technical explanation.

## Source excerpt

Yesterday we had a success disaster. An überpopular mashup album that mixed the Wu Tang Clan and The Beatles was released a few days ago and yesterday it got stumbled upon and boing boinged and tweeted to the four winds. Our downloads per minute went through the roof. We've dealt with big releases in the [...]