Re: The Artists thing

[Pierre Phaneuf <pp@ludusdesign.com>]

Tomas Andrle wrote:

> > What does Q3A uses? Isn't it MP3?
> 
> It's playing WAV files from a ZIP file. I'm not sure if it's actually
> streaming, but the datafile, which is a ZIP, contains WAV files with music.
> 
> I checked the compression ratio of the ZIP and found that it wasn't the
> maximum ratio that zip can achieve...is it faster to decompress less
> compressed data or was it "just enough to fit on the CD"? Don't know...

Never benchmarked decompression. Generally speaking, higher compression
rate shouldn't be much more expensive to decompress, but I didn't check.

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