I wanted to see what it would sound like in comparison to a really early streaming audio codec, realaudio 1.0 $ ffmpeg -i female_ref.wav - acodec real_144

I wanted to see what it would sound like in comparison to a really early streaming audio codec, realaudio 1.0 $ ffmpeg -i female_ref.wav - acodec real_144 female_ref.ra And if you can't support that I put it back to wav and posted it: http://9ol.es/female_ref-ra.wav http://9ol.es/female_ref-ra.wav This was seen as "14.4" audio, for 14.4kb/s dialup in the mid-90s. The quality increase over those nearly 30 years for what you can get out of what's actually a fewer number of bytes is really impressive.