New Lossless Compression format.

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New Lossless Compression format. - Paul - 10-05-2002

Hi,
I've been told about this new compression format from a few people. I wish to share it with anyone interested in sharing files over the net
with lossless quality. Like SHN except much shorter files and therefore a much shorter time for downloading but offering no loss in quality.
The program is free from there site, so for anyone who is interested the address is:

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.monkeysaudio.com/dress">http://www.monkeysaudio.com/dress</a>.

Interested in hearing from anyone regarding this program.

Best to all.

Paul

- TLB - 10-05-2002

Remove the "dress." from the link and then it works.
Browsed the site but haven't tried the program yet.
Looked at a chart on the site that compared it to other compression programs.
According to the author's own chart of tests, this program compressed a 650 mb disc to 53.6% of it's original size (348 mb), compared to Shorten (SHN) which compressed the same 650 mb disc to 59.7% (388mb), a difference of only 40mb.
Seems like it doesn't make much of a difference unless you are compressing many gigabytes of information.

- mrlayance - 10-06-2002

I would check out a compression called FLAC. Its is Etree is going with to replace SHN in the future.
<a class="postlink" href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/flac/">http://freshmeat.net/projects/flac/</a>