There's something called SHORTEN that does lossless compression of .WAV
files. It produces .SHN files that are roughly 1/2 the size of the .WAV,
but... you can't play a SHN file (yet). You have to decompress it to a
WAV and listen to it that way. So, it's good for up/down-loading music
and for archiving music.
You can whip up a little script to play CDs full of SHN files. I did. It
just decompresses the SHN off of a CD and pipes the output directly to
"play" so that I can keep twice the music on a single CD.
I don't remember the Shorten website name exactly, but there is a link to
it off of my website.
http://www.hydrofunk.org/music
peace,
--Paco
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Sergey wrote:
> Hi!
> Have someone heard of "Multimedia compression"?
> I mean, a special Zip (WINZIP :( ) which compresses PCM WAVes without
> losses. (Special optimized algorythms are used)
> Is there something like that for Linux?
>
> As I know, it will save 30-40% of disk space if you store plain PCMs -
> whiel a ususal bzip or zip saves just about 5%.
>
> Please do not write of mpeg or any other "destructive" compression.
> Sergey.
>
