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Old 03-10-03, 06:48 PM   #2 (permalink)
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heh.. a zipped mp3 would probably be a bit larger than the mp3 files itself.

Compressed data, jpg or mp3 doesn't compress well.. The reason is mp3 or jpeg is compressed in a manner that is suited to the type of data it is, jpeg being inverse discreet cosine transform and mp3 being a breakdown of the sound into its components in the frequency domain.

Applying LZ or the pkware compression to that data will result in a slightly larger file because of the overhead needed to store the symbol dictionary and headers for the compression format used.
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