Collecting Sound Files in a stack

[Mark Smith]

Funnily enough, that's what I thought, but Stuffit reduced the total 
size of the files from 577mb to around 268mb (though apparently 
corrupting them in the process). The compress function in Rev did just 
as well, and seems not no have corrupted anything. Filetypes was the 
problem, and thanks to Klaus Majors kindly email, I was able to sort it 
out. I actually made a standalone that creates a stack containing all 
the data, and it's directory structure (I suspect that someone, maybe 
Chipp, has already done this), and uploaded the data stack and the 
standalone...I wait 'til Monday to see if my colleague at the other end 
gets it all ok.

I still quite like the idea of a standalone that contains the actual 
data, sort of like a self-extracting archive, and in cases like these, 
the engines' 2.8mb overhead would hardly be a problem.

sd2 is, indeed out of date, but actually in quite common use still. I 
suppose because it was always the 'native' format for ProTools. The guy 
I'm working with seems to prefer them, for some reason. I've settled 
with WAVs, myself, but he hasn't.

Cheers,

Mark


On 14 May 2005, at 02:19, Steven Barncard wrote:

> 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.