321:. After Toledo learned of the search from her son, she uploaded it to Bandcamp and other streaming services, with the funds from the Bandcamp page being donated to the Music Heals Charitable Foundation. Soon after, fake versions of the song began to appear on streaming services, which she suspected to be streaming fraud.
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user carl92 uploaded a 17-second snippet of a song recorded between 1982 and 1999; he claimed to have found the recording amongst files in a DVD backup, and speculated that it was a leftover from when he was learning to record audio. He also claimed that the snippet was from 1999 and possibly from
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