Today is April 17, 1999.
Nobody's exactly sure what's in it, but it seems to be pretty high-quality.
I wanted to investigate how well MS Audio actually works and possibly get a glimpse into how it works as well. Just because I felt like it, I decided to check a number of different encoding schemes for relative quality, and ended up running a somewhat exhaustive battery of tests on most all of the popular codecs. The results were interesting. I was somewhat miffed. Real Networks is sending me a copy of RealProducer G2 to complete the testing.