Zipped Song? Is it possible?

[Silverluna]

I clicked on the thread ...Whatchamacallit...umm....oh yeah..Audio Threads....so i wonder, is it possible to zip a song and post it...? I have some lovely ones I'd love to share....

 

[Tyrael]

That would still be a large file...maybe not to the ones with high speed access, but to use peons with 56k it's a large file.

And the limit to what you can upload to the board is set at 100 or so Kilobytes. No song I know of will meet that criteria unless you zip it and zip the zip and keep doing that until you meet the limit.

 

[Silverluna]

Well...what about a sound bite?

 

[Weird Harold]

Well...what about a sound bite?

Since you can attach any ZIP file that is smaller than 100Kb, you can attach sound bites, movie clips, audio files, executable files, or any other file type if it's zipped. he onlylimit is that it has to ZIP down to less than 102400 bytes.

 

[Weird Harold]

...unless you zip it and zip the zip and keep doing that until you meet the limit.

An odd quirk about the ZIP compression program. If you ZIP a file that is already compressed, it can actually be larger than the un-zipped file.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

An odd quirk about the ZIP compression program. If you ZIP a file that is already compressed, it can actually be larger than the un-zipped file.

Not really odd when you think about it - it usually can't be compressed any further, so it adds it's header and maybe a few other bytes of info, and you wind up with a larger file. If you are going to compress an already compressed file, such as a JPEG or MPEG file, then you can put it into ZIP format without compression. I don't know why vBulletin doesn't accept MPEG files, other than maybe that was an option the BBS owners decided to discourage lest we get into all kinds of copyright issues.

 

[Weird Harold]

Not really odd when you think about it - it usually can't be compressed any further, so it adds it's header and maybe a few other bytes of info, and you wind up with a larger file. If you are going to compress an already compressed file, such as a JPEG or MPEG file, then you can put it into ZIP format without compression.

To those who don't understand compressed files, it seems odd.

I've found that using a different compression algorithm on a previously compressed file will usually gain some additional compression. It's only re-compressing a file with the same program that it becomes readily apparent.

Using WinZIP on MPeg or JPG files isn't nearly as effective as it is on Text or BMP files, but it's enough to be worthwhile (quite aside from making it attachable.)

 

[Silverluna]

Thanks for the variaty of answers..well here goes...