curly Wrote: > > 1. would save even more storage space. > on this point, I don't think so. Take a look what the size of a directory full of mp3s are, then zip 'em up and look at the size of the zip. I don't think you're going to save squat in disk space...mp3s aren't going to compress any further than they already are.
As a test, I zipped up an album and compared raw files to the zip. They are the same... [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ du -h Calexico\ -\ Hot\ Rail/ 106M Calexico - Hot Rail/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ ls -lh c.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 bklaas wheel 105M Apr 24 10:59 c.zip [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ Your point #2 has some merit, but I don't think there's any space savings in #1. FWIW, I know of no slimserver function to unzip on the fly. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23281 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
