so,
is anyone using windows default files compression ?

 

I just buy more hard drives... of course compression will affect speed.

Thats a weird poll dude.

 

No to WF compression, because if things go corrupt on your HD, you have less chance of recovery? Otoh, RARs with RR or 7z+PAR has corruption resilience, and saves space.

Also LOL so many options.

Compression ratio is affected by compressability of things. WAVs & XML/Text files should compress somewhat to very well. Otoh, already compressed formats like mp3 will probably not compress as well.

 

No. It is slower. I just buy more HDs, too. I'm at 10, currently, of which 2 are SSDs. Using just 3 in my main computer and the laptop all the time. Main - SSD and HD, and laptop just SSD. All others are big HDs. I connect other HDs as necessary via eSATA, both on laptop and main computer. One of them is full of porn. But others are full of music projects and samples, of course. *yes* I also use one for experimenting with different Linux distributions or experimenting with other OSes in general. One has XBMC on it.

 

Kontakt new format is already lossless compressed, like FLAC audio.

If you get a lot of wave files you want to lossless reduce, try FLAC.
Most serious DAWs, like Ableton and Studio One i use, support FLAC.
You don't loose quality, it is free and an open source, so even if they close their doors, you will see a side project.

About sending big projects with rendered audio, i advice RAR or 7-ZIP...or FLAC export
They all reduce WAV/AIFF by 50°%, lossless of course.
ZIP format sucks for raw audio.

If you are less picky, a simple MP3 320kBps convertion will save even more space. And most ppl, apart dogs and bats, will not hear any difference.

With those methods, you will gain space and avoid troubles related to native Win compression (data recovery errors, ressources lost everytime you access data, unsupported softwares...and more).

That's just my point of view

 

yeah i put many options, i thought "do you use windows native compression 1-yes 2-no was not really a poll. but i will still post my mini benchmark, if my thread and weird poll are useful for at least 1 member, i will already be satisfied and happy

 

Actually Windows Compression cannot handle uncompressed audio - the size will remain the same *yes*
Already tried that.

Perhaps better comparison to NCW would be WavPack, since both can handle floating-point, unlike FLAC

 

If Windows starts to malfunction slowly, you will have corrupted data by the time you discover what is going on.
Have you tried wavepack compression? Still has the (.wav) and readable by most software.

 

Dude with all due my respect, this Post is shit,

just one think don't use is this feature, it will kill your hard drive,
and it will have less life-time,

imagine compress decompress all the time, this will surly kill the hard drive in no time, mush more time to access file, just buy some hard drive.


THIS IS NO SOLUTION!

 

stop exaggerating these problems, it does not kill your drive

 

Ohh you have no idea bdy you have no ideaa...

 

Exactly. I also use WavPack for music projects because WavPack supports 32-bit FP audio format and I keep the masters in that format so I can always easily re-master it if needed. But for normal 16-24bit music FLAC is great. I don't use anything else these days, just WavPack, FLAC and WAV. *yes*

Well, MP3 and AAC are good for previewing audio files over the internet or sending them over e-mail, again just for a quick preview, or for playing the files from a space-restricted audio player. I tend to use AAC more as it sounds better at the same bandwidth rate. 256 kbps AAC sounds really good. OGG/Vorbis at the same rate is also really good. MP3 is the worst choice of all for lossy audio compression.

 

It's quite an irony really.
WavPack vs FLAC

WavPack:
+ better compression ratio
+ higher compression speed (reducing CPU utilisation during recording)
+ floating-point support
+ non-standard multichannel support (up to 64 channels I think)

FLAC:
- all of the above (channel configurations 1.0, 2.0 and 5.1, that's all)
+ compatibility

 

"+compatibility" is enough for me

I don't use 32bits (24 is more than enough for me)
I mix only stereo
I don't even know a single DAW supporting Wavepak natively. Whereas i can drag'n drop FLAC in Studio One and Ableton.

So the answer is simple in my situation

 

REAPER *yes*

It's not that much about 32bit, but about floating-point vs LPCM. FP audio is boundless, e.g. no 0dB limit, which is great help in any audio chain, because even if one or more plugins overload the output, you can still render your track undistorted (for example at +8dB) and then normalize it and resave as 24bit LPCM