Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:35:48 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> To: kline@thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best archiver? Message-ID: <49BAB594.2080503@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090313191520.GA14233@thought.org> References: <20090313191520.GA14233@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is nearly > full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio files. > mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would like to have > the most reasoned approach to compressing my ~/Music/ files. is rar/unrar > better that bzip -9? is there any new/forthcoming archiver on the horizon? man shar Just kidding! I would look into archivers/bunzip and archivers/p7zip. I recall reading that the 7z format produces better compression rates than RAR for already compressed audio files but I don't remember the source. The file formats you mentioned are already compressed and depending on the contents you probably won't get /much/ better than you have now. -- Eitan Adler "Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave." -Jakob Nielsen
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