On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Ethan Pierce wrote: > Subject: OT: what's the point of mp3's? > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 krzys krzys 118700 Jul 31 17:28 hip1302mp3.mp3 > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 krzys krzys 1308716 Aug 9 10:05 hip1302mp3.wav > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 krzys krzys 117718 Aug 9 10:06 hip1302mp3.wav.gz
You might try this again with the wave *before* it was converted to an mp3. The mp3 format simplifies the file a little bit for its own compression; this is lossy compression so the simplification sticks around even after the file is converted back to a wav. I don't know for sure, but I think it's likely that the un-mp3'd wav file will not compress nearly so well.
