Collecting Sound Files in a stack

[Stephen Barncard]

One thing you should know is that Stuffit and most data compression 
will not save you any size with audio. There are special lossless 
compression techniques for audio, but they are proprietary and 
time-consuming, and the best you could do would be 2:1 with those. 
Lemper-Ziv/ RLE encoding of audio will probably make the file BIGGER.

Also SD2 is an obsolete audio format, Apple-centric with resource 
forks, and that's probably where the problems are. Try converting 
source files to WAV files instead, which do not have resource forks, 
and can probably survive the travel.

You shouldn't have to build a standalone as a carrier.

At 12:42 PM +0100 5/13/05, Mark Smith wrote:
>I've been having problems sending a largish batch of sound files 
>(500 mb or so, in sd2 format) to an ftp site for a colleague to 
>download - various experiments with creating stuffit archives have 
>resulted in corruption of data....
>
>So I thought of building a Rev standalone that contains all the 
>files as customProps, and which will spit them out as sound files at 
>the other end.
>
>My initial experiment involved reading in the files (using the 
>binfile URL scheme), and then spitting them back out again (also 
>using the binfile URL scheme). The resulting files are the correct 
>size, but OS X now thinks they are text files (they are supposed to 
>be sd2 files). Adding the .sd2 suffix to the file names gets them 
>recognised as sound files, but the quicktime player (which plays the 
>originals without difficulty) simply barfs on them.
>
>I've tried compressing them on the way in and decompressing them on 
>the way out, but apart from reducing the size, this does not help.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark
>
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