HRiP vs ZIP

ZXNet echo conference «music.zx»

From Sergey Zotov To All 30 September 2001

Hi, All! Have you ever tried to compare the quality of music compression with HRiP and ZIP? Probably no. But it turned out that the first one presses the music worse than the second one. And this noticeable already on several Mouzons. On 10 MMCM PT3.4 modules the wheeze lost 4 sectors, on Andy Fer's 90 Mouzons, zip's winnings amounted to almost 20 sectors! Some will say that this is a small thing, but then some do not understand the importance saving disk space. Naturally, HRiP packs faster, but as it turned out, the time difference is not exceeds 1.5-1.6 times compared to ZIP. Moreover, HRiP cannot pack more than 255 files (only 1 byte is allocated for the number of packed), ZIP has no limits. By the way, there is another positive moment in ZIP packing! While archiving, you can drink some tea and eat something, and give your eyes a break from the monitor. :))) So, gentlemen, think: drink some tea while the ZIP packs and save a couple of hundred sectors on the disk or stare at the monitor looking at the progressive bar. P.S. everything described above applies ONLY to MUSIC FILES. Quality Packing and its speed of other files do not interest me at the moment. ZXNet: 500:8462/1 ~/ <~ http://zs80.chat.ru/ Fido: 2:5057/21.93 /_ _> ftp://zx-museum.org.ru/zs/