[Vorbis] zipping an ogg file

[Paul]

Just for curiosity I zipped up an Vorbis file to look at the extra 
compression I attained.  The zipped file was 0.2% smaller than the original.

Paul

Hugo González Monteverde wrote:
> Steve Russell wrote:
>> A recent discussion brought a question to mind:  How much effect does 
>> zipping and unzipping an ogg file have on the original form?
>
> I don't quite get what you are asking. Zipping and unzipping is 
> lossless compression. Decompressing a zipped ogg will give you exactly 
> the same ogg.
>
> Usually there is no point in compressing an ogg/mp3/jpeg, as they have 
> little redundancy and the compression ratios are very low.
>  You'll end up only wasting processor time in applying the compression 
> algorithm.
>
> Hugo
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