I think that he's asking why not just gzip waves and gunzip when you need to listen to them. The answer, is that gzip is not designed for audio, and gzip is lossless. MP3 is designed for audio - it is lossful in that it removed bits of audio that normally a person wouldnt be able to hear anyway. MP3 gets what is it... 1:10 compression or so on a wave? gzip would get much less. Also, mp3 can be decompressed as needed where you'd have to totally unpack with gunzip and then play. Unless... someone wants to write a sort of streaming gunzip engine :)
Mathew Johnston Krzys Majewski wrote: > gunzip -c hef1153mp3.wav.gz | bplay > > Actually I screwed up in the first post. Should've said > > -rw-r--r-- 1 krzys krzys 118700 Jul 31 17:28 hip1302mp3.mp3 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 krzys krzys 1118870 Aug 9 11:05 hip1302mp3.wav.gz > > which answers my question I guess.. -chris > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-15] André Dahlqvist wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:22:30AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > -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 > > > > > > So what's the point of .mp3? -chris > > > > Try loading the gzipped file in XMMS and see what happens:-) > > -- > > > > // André > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
