Archiving MP3 Files

[tupperduck]

Pardon my ignorance, but...

Can MP3 files be compressed (e.g. zipped) for archiving purposes?

I am under the assumption that this would degrade the audio quality. Am I wrong in this?

Please enlighten me!
(I'll be your best friend)

[Heigar]

Pardon my ignorance, but...

Can MP3 files be compressed (e.g. zipped) for archiving purposes?

I am under the assumption that this would degrade the audio quality. Am I wrong in this?

Please enlighten me!
(I'll be your best friend)

I don't see any problem with it,It's not like encoding a wav to mp3 as to where it throws out part of the song that it thinks is inaudable to the human ear,in a zip all file information stays intact.

[Todd The Kiwi]

Pardon my ignorance, but...

Can MP3 files be compressed (e.g. zipped) for archiving purposes?

I am under the assumption that this would degrade the audio quality. Am I wrong in this?

Please enlighten me!
(I'll be your best friend)

mp3's degrade your tunes anyway, so squish them good and proper try these man
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/download.html
Monkey's Audio - a fast and powerful lossless audio compressor
http://losslessaudiocompression.com/
Welcome to Ghido's Data Compression Page
http://flac.sourceforge.net/
FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec

[tupperduck]

Thanks for all the suggestions, folks.

Heigar--
I went ahead and tried zipping some MP3s... and even under maximum compression there wasn't an appreciable difference in the file size. It hadn't occurred to me that an MP3 is already compressed and as such wouldn't lend itself to further compression. (What can I say, I am a little slow on Sundays) *bonk*

Todd The Kiwi --
Thanks for the links; definitely something to think about going forward. (Though I don't have a portable player that will play any of those formats, so probably not something I am going jump on immediately.)

[Todd The Kiwi]

Todd The Kiwi --
Thanks for the links; definitely something to think about going forward. (Though I don't have a portable player that will play any of those formats, so probably not something I am going jump on immediately.)[/QUOTE]



winamp, qcd and everything else has plugins for them. i'd go for monkey(.ape) first man but yeah you may have a problem squashing pre squashed gears , i'm slow on mondays (it's 9:15 am here on monday 19th ) you don't need a portable player either man :D