New Lossless Compression format.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sat Oct 05, 2002 5:45 pm

Hi,
I've been told about this new compression format from a few people. I wish to share it with anyone interested in sharing files over the net
with lossless quality. Like SHN except much shorter files and therefore a much shorter time for downloading but offering no loss in quality.
The program is free from there site, so for anyone who is interested the address is:

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/dress.

Interested in hearing from anyone regarding this program.

Best to all.

Paul

TLB · Post by **TLB** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 12:57 am

Remove the "dress." from the link and then it works.
Browsed the site but haven't tried the program yet.
Looked at a chart on the site that compared it to other compression programs.
According to the author's own chart of tests, this program compressed a 650 mb disc to 53.6% of it's original size (348 mb), compared to Shorten (SHN) which compressed the same 650 mb disc to 59.7% (388mb), a difference of only 40mb.
Seems like it doesn't make much of a difference unless you are compressing many gigabytes of information.

Post by **mrlayance** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 1:57 am

I would check out a compression called FLAC. Its is Etree is going with to replace SHN in the future.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/flac/