(That was the sponsor of the ‘Old Time Radio’ show)
I’ve decided that while I’m experimenting with encoding opus audio for playback on the web and portable media players and smartphones,
Recently I started listening to an “Old Time Radio” series I found on archive.org, and since I’m playing mostly with voice audio I thought it would be a good test subject. Episode 1 of “Chandu, the Magician” (“The Return of Frank Chandler”) actually compressed very well all the way down to 14kbps with little noticeable loss of quality compared to the original. Admittedly, the original was a lossy digitization of an old wire recording, but still, what quality was there was preserved well.