[bonzini]

Can you try it with Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega? It's sung without any instruments, and an early version of MP3 reportedly was a disaster on that song.

[petercooper]

Here you go: http://no.gd/vega2.wav

It holds up ridiculously well considering the entire song compresses down to 25392 bytes.

[StavrosK]

The lyrics of the song are 1200 characters long, so this version of the song only takes up twenty times more space than the written lyrics.

[bonzini]

At some point she sings "loose" instead of "nice" in the compressed version, and a bit later it also sounds like "lulk" instead of "milk". So it's a bit lossy even with respect to the lyrics!

[bonzini]

Compare it with this now: https://youtu.be/lHjn8ffnEKU :-)

[bravura]

Could you also try "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer?

I am curious how it sounds when there is a really active bassline and lead synth.

[petercooper]

http://no.gd/donna2.mp3

The vocal sections just sound like someone clearing their throat out.

[godelski]

I'm getting a 404 on this

[petercooper]

Curious, it definitely works, but the domain is "weird" enough that certain firewalls or proxies may have trouble, perhaps. I've put it at https://gofile.io/?c=F5gle3 as an alternative.

[godelski]

That one works! And now I'm going to have nightmares.