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.
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