Re: Some ideas needed

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

I'm just wary of any compression or file changing.  I know with Pro Tools friends who are WAY INTO IT don't even recommend copying files from one drive to another because data can and has gotten lost.  So that was why I didn't think zipping the files was good.  But with mp3s, who would notice?

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On 27-Dec-06, at 10:10 AM, Nic Roozeboom wrote:

> > Just a simple Winzip or Winrar compression? Any experiences with the quality of such?
> Winzip is lossless data compression - what goes in, comes out.
>
> Since mp3 and the like do more than just data compression, you will typically not see a further reduction in filesize using Winzip, but you do get the advantage of bundling many small mp3 files. 
>
> Cheers,
> Nic
>
>
> On 12/27/06, Tony K <bigtonyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > split them into several files by theme, or whatever.  Just about
> > everybody has ZIP, and it's built into Windows XP now.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > On 12/27/06, Steve Mark <steve@otms.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > How big is the file if you zip them?  If it's relatively small (5-10M), I'd
> > > just put it up on the site as a zip file and people can download it
> > > directly.  Otherwise, maybe you could break them up into multiple zip files
> > > (grouped by name, theme, type, or whatever).  Zip is easy and standard. 
> > >
> > >
> > > Steve Mark
> > >  LooperTools™
> > >  www.LooperTools.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Ingo Ito [mailto: ito@itofarm.com]
> > >  Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 8:24 AM
> > >  To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > >  Subject: Some ideas needed
> > > 
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > >  I know it´s a bit off topic, but maybe some people on this list do have
> > > some advice (I tried some typically mp3 groups and this was no serious help 
> > > at all).
> > >
> > >
> > > I need some help or recommendations on the following subject:
> > >
> > >  I want to offer mp3 files of my work on my own homepage (which I´m working
> > > on at the moment). 
> > >  I do work with loops and sometimes they are only tiny pieces of music for
> > > e.g. audio books, and so I have for example 50 individual mp3 tracks from 30
> > > sec to a few minutes in one album.
> > >
> > >
> > > This would be a lot of individual downloading for the people.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > So I would like to have one file containing all little mp3 files with tags
> > > etc. .
> > >
> > >
> > > What do you recommend to do for offering such downloadable file in which all
> > > the individual files stay as they are?
> > >
> > >
> > > Just a simple Winzip or Winrar compression? Any experiences with the quality 
> > > of such?
> > >
> > >
> > > Or maybe BitTorrent? Or sth.else?
> > >
> > >
> > > Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you very much and I wish everybody on
> > > this list a happy new year!
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards and greetings from Spain
> > >  Ingo
> >
> >
> > --
> > -==-=-=-
> > Tony
> > http://bigtony.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
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