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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: DeltaSound suggestion
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Date: 10 Apr 90 16:56:38 GMT
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I was using Delta Sound the other day for compressing sound files and
found one inherently evil "feature".  DeltaSound changes a SoundCap
sound file to keep the differences from one byte to the next.  The
advantage is that StuffIt compresses the files better.  Unfortunately,
it does nothing more than that.  A file whose type/creator was FSSD SFX!
is DeltaSounded and the resulting file is a FSSD SFX!, but it is unusable
as a sound until it is UnDeltaSounded.

If the file is being changed to something that is not a sound file anymore,
why not change the type and creator?  I think it would be a big improvement
and make it a much more viable alternative.

Comments from the author?

Ken

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