Program to find "dropouts" on (scratched) CD's??

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Does anyone think it's possible to write a program to see if an
audio book on CD has "dropouts" on it?

Reason I ask it that I've been getting some books on CD from a library 
for my mother to listen to, & because others have borrowed & returned them
previously, (as opposed to buying each one new), they can be variously
scratched,
which sometimes causes lots of dropouts of the spoken story, which isn't 
wonderful.  

So I thought maybe I could write/find a program that could analyze the CD
as it reads it, looking for dropouts, so if there were I could say,
"never mind, don't bother listening to this one", 
but I can't see how to tell the difference between a dropout and a pause
or moment of silence.

Anybody got any ideas?

(And it could be useful if I could do this to mp3 tracks, too.)

Dan Moyer

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