Editing Beautiful Garbage (section)

===''Beautiful Garbage'' mixer===

The CD formats of ''Beautiful Garbage'' contained an [[Enhanced CD|enhanced element]] which users could access and [[remix]] four tracks from the album: "Shut Your Mouth", "Androgyny", "Breaking Up the Girl" and "Cherry Lips". Created in conjunction with [[Sonic Foundry]], using a customized version of their [[drag-and-drop]] [[ACID Pro]] [[music sequencer]] software, the remixes utilized [[Sample (music)|samples]] and [[Loop (music)|loops]] taken directly from the album masters. programmed and designed by design company DDW. The enhanced section could be accessed when the user was online; a simplified version of the software featuring only "Androgyny" loops was accessible when the user was offline.<ref name="androbgpromobook">[[Mushroom Records UK]] ''Beautiful Garbage'' & "[[Androgyny (song)|Androgyny]]" promotion, marketing, tools and schedule campaign itinerary, published September 2001</ref>

Interscope Records and Sonic Foundry launched a competition in November 2001, in which fans were invited to remix "Androgyny" by downloading free ''ACID Xpress'' software. Entrants could then upload their work to a specially created website (www.acidgarbage.com) to [[Streaming audio|stream]] their mixes online.<ref name="acidgarbage">{{cite web |url=http://acidgarbage.com/default.asp?subsection=the_contest |title=The Contest |website=ACIDgarbage |access-date=January 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020607182554/http://acidgarbage.com/default.asp?subsection=the_contest |archive-date=June 7, 2002}}</ref> The winner received copies of Sonic Foundry's audio software – ACID Pro, [[Sound Forge]], and [[Sony Vegas|Vegas Audio]] – and five loop libraries.<ref name="acidgarbage"/>