curly Wrote: > > 1. would save even more storage space. > > 2. easier to transfer entire artist directories. > > 3. I won't have to unzip all the files I have already zipped. >
1. As Mark & Ben have already pointed out, most audio formats are already compressed, so compression utilities like zip, gzip, etc. won't squeeze any more space out of them. But unzipping them will chew up processor time. And I suppose that zip/gzip would end up taking *more* space, at least in the short run, because you'd have to have some free space to put the unzipped file, while keeping the zipped version at least until the unzipping is finished. 2. Seems to me you can get this pretty easily already if you move/copy from the right place in the directory tree. All OSs should handle this easily, whether command line or GUI. 3. Actually, you'd be unzipping the files every time you played them, rather than just once. It would just be less visible. I'm a big fan of zip and gzip, but I don't see the gains in this particular application. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23281 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
