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Suggested workflow single-file CD archival?
Authored by: acet on Oct 21, '05 03:36:10PM

To echo the previous responders comments, a ZIP file doesn't compress audio data nearly as well as FLAC. ZIP is a general purpose compression algorithm, while FLAC and others are specifically tooled to take advantage of the typical patterns in audio, resulting in higher compression ratios at the expense of being limited to a specific type of data.

Also, this still doesn't address the issue of capturing the meta info contained in a CD, like the table of contents and precise track layout.



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