j.r-xrs

Recently I've been working on a Fedora Core 3 server for home which just serves media to various workstations in the house. The samba shares are all set up and I can read and wirte etc. to an external hard drive on the Linux.

Ideally I would like to back my itunes library up and store it remotely just in case . So my question is whether or not it is worth compressing to whole library or not (currently about 40Gig of music in total)?

Any feedback much appreciated,

jrxrs

David_Wallis

surely the music is allready compressed and trying to further compress it is pointless?

David

Dazza's-STi

very little point of compressing music as, as states its already a compressed format... i could get very technical about algorithms but i'll not bother... its the same with jpg's also...
Daz

jpor

iTrader: (1)

I suppose you could always tar or gzip the whole lot up. But you will notice 0 to very little difference in compression and space saving.

darlodge

Back in my days of starting computers, I zipped up a load of mp3's and jpgs and the zip file was larger than the files!!

Darren