Alright, I wrote a blogpost about my #floppycast adventures: http://ajroach42.com/floppycasts-1-44mb-podcasts/

This doesn't have much new compared to my posts from this weekend, but here they are ordered and coherent.

I also posted some audio samples: http://ajroach42.com/floppycast-examples/

Keep in mind that both samples will sound pretty much horrific, but also that each sample is around 100kb for more than a minute of audio.

I prefer the Opus file to the mp3 file, as it's a little less muddy during speech (but ruins music.)

@ajroach42 POTS audio is only 64Kbps, uncompressed. I'm surprised modern compression can't get way better than that.

@tek Oh, we can. If you want to devote some serious power to playback, stuff like Codec 2 can apparently deliver pretty stunning results.

And VoIP codecs can do some pretty interesting stuff, too, but none of those play back on vintage hardware.