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Audio Quality of Zipped Files

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bobbybooey

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When you make a ZIP file of several audio files, the data is compressed. My question for the technically-advanced posters: does this alter the sound quality of the audio files? My brain tells me it should but I don't recall hearing any difference. Does it make any difference whether they're WAVs or mp3s? Thanks in advance for any knowledge you care to drop!
 
There's no quality loss. The .zip format is "lossless".

In most cases, zipping a bunch of audio files is more a convienent way to group several files together into one for downloading or e-mailing, than to make the files smaller. WAV and MP3 files don't get much smaller when zipped up.
 
Thanks John. The reason I was asking was I recently went into a zipped file and noticed that the mp3s inside were about 25% smaller than the original mp3s, but like I said I couldn't hear any difference between those and the originals.
 
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