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Re: Rubberband Music Is Love?

From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 15:56 CDT
Subject: Re: Rubberband Music Is Love?
To: love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET
In-Reply-To: <1993Aug25.112545.14871@news.cs.tut.fi>
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: FCIA Univ. of Chicago
References: <m0oTyLS-000illC@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu> <24AUG199313522683@utkvx.utk.edu> <m0oV837-000ilpC@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu>

>>   Audio samples don't compress enough to make any difference.
>
>If you use standard compression programs, that is.
>I saw a mention about a freely distributable lossless audio compression
>program in comp.sys.amiga.multimedia a few weeks ago, but I didn't
>save the article :-( The author claimed 50% to 70% compression factors.
>

   That would be great, but until a standard compression method is
available on all the platforms that Love-Hounds use (PC, Mac, Sun,
SGI, Amiga, NeXT, etc.) it's probably not a good idea to use any
compression at all. Of course anyone is welcome to make special
versions in any format. 

                          Chris Williams of
                             Chris'n'Vickie of Chicago
                               chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (his)
                                 vickie@njin.rutgers.edu      (hers)
                                   katefans@chinet.chinet.com (ours)