From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 13 19:35:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F781065674 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:35:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B79F68FC1F for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:35:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 5so266822ywb.13 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:35:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=u3Ggl7iJIqcgTl/E0lF5q9sA6tgX1e2i2nkbsoaM9uo=; b=B0VBkqPdNZBNZcr7ryun2BOLG6WAgkOYagENlFKERDLHMMqclqUfS/MqD05Uu37xQO ox4JP7fAdDrjEvpvP/CSiQHmTvrv404E1UiTBs90b0wV+L9kMgKMkPbRQH038qXiorwK l5hY4BOooQBqnOhi2qFdm1/iWcota5TwDvzgA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=j6MZhxzLvuC6219gqLpAcPefFJWd1NeSijToA27RzIg0hcRYED+mPUXpxYcW5WRzxT lZL9eVAt/6sLvnC7tQyUXUQRaAwlCQWUSsnB85h7M+O99/frlfXtTTNRAKdJE6sgjOUl oFckLPhCVeMeZVKsg4jyxYU2GOAmDukeeJnzc= Received: by 10.142.242.8 with SMTP id p8mr739003wfh.25.1236972943645; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aargh.lan (ool-182fcc8b.dyn.optonline.net [24.47.204.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 30sm4745820wfa.58.2009.03.13.12.35.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49BAB594.2080503@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:35:48 -0400 From: Eitan Adler User-Agent: Mozilla (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; ) Gecko Thunderbird Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kline@thought.org References: <20090313191520.GA14233@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090313191520.GA14233@thought.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=E9C2CCD1; url=pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: best archiver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:35:45 -0000 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