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Originally posted by Warcaptain
no?
its so i can have people download all the sounds\music on my server instantly without having to do it when they try to play it
and also without having to do
setimg filename;
setimg filename;
setimg filename;
setimg filename;
setimg filename;
for every sound
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or run it through a for loop
or have it available elsewhere to download at thier time of choosing. Although it may not be you who would use zips to smuggle things, others would be prone to it unless if only Stefan can upload zip files.
For the most part compressing certain filetypes is very pointless such as wavs. I just did a small check using a bunch of small wav files. The folder has rather small wav files (less than 150k at most), but the total space taken is ~1.8mb. I compressed all those wavs in that folder and the compressed file's size is only a few bytes less than the all the files uncompressed. And that is with maximum compression so I don't see how trying to compress even small files because most files don't compress well such as pngs and wavs. Midis might compress okay, but they are already small so I fail to see the reason. Zip files can also get corrupted during download (as well as any other file). Not everyone that plays Graal has a spiffy broadband connection. I understand that you're just trying to efficiently use your space, but there are other ways to do that. Breaking images apart and reducing color count works with images and lowering sound quality works well for wavs. I suppose the only positive side to using zip or some other compressed format would be for security. But nothing is unhackable and the more you try to stop someone, the more they will do it.