How do i compress sound files for Blockland

[Ctrooper]

Since my server has so many sounds in it, and there huge files. I want to compress them to shorten loading time, because right now, downloading the sounds = 1 hour minimum.

So could I get your ideas on programs that I can use to compress files, and how to do so

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[Ipquarx]

If you're talking about sound files and not music files then I'm not sure, blockland might accept ogg sound files instead of wav.

[Ctrooper]

So switching them to OGG will reduce there size?

[Ipquarx]

Yes. Assuming you're using WAV for your sounds, that's 10 megabytes per minute.
If you use OGG at 100kb/s, that's only 750 kilobytes per minute, 14 times smaller. But again, I don't know if blockland supports OGG sounds.

[Ctrooper]

does Badspot answer his messages often?

[Ipquarx]

Just try it yourself and see if it works. Make sure the audio is mono and less than a megabyte otherwise it won't work.

[Ctrooper]

alright thanks man, if it doesn't work I will bump the topic.

[Ctrooper]

So I changed a bunch of .wavs to .OGG vorbis, I also included the ogg in the script ex. "AUGA3Fire.ogg" but when I started up my server, the sounds wouldn't play, is there something im not doing right? or is this just not possible?

[Xalos]

Blockland's support of the .ogg format is iffy at best.  You will only be able to use them without problems 100% of the time in an uncompressed folder - if they're in a .zip archive, they aren't guaranteed to work at all.

[boodals 2]

Just do some searches for a program that compresses .wav files, you're bound to find some. I know you can always lower the bitrate in audacity, which helps a lot, but reduces quality a ton.

[Ipquarx]

Just do some searches for a program that compresses .wav files, you're bound to find some. I know you can always lower the bitrate in audacity, which helps a lot, but reduces quality a ton.

I don't think you understand how wav works. Wav is an uncompressed format. It has a bitrate that is completely dependant on the number of samples per second and the bit depth of the samples, and nothing else. At the standard 16-bit 44.1KHz format, it's 1411kilobits per second.

[boodals 2]

I don't think you understand how wav works.

I most definitely don't. However I am speaking from experience when I say that you can lower the bitrate. I did it on some wavs I had and it cut the download times in half.

Ninja: I might not be talking about bitrate, it might be something else I'm thinking of.

[Ctrooper]

I most definitely don't. However I am speaking from experience when I say that you can lower the bitrate. I did it on some wavs I had and it cut the download times in half.

Ninja: I might not be talking about bitrate, it might be something else I'm thinking of.

Yea but ive already tried lower bit rate from 4800 to 3200, still long as forget load.

anyways ill look for a compressor.

[otto-san]

mabe u cud ask kompressor to work on it next update

sorry

[Ctrooper]

mabe u cud ask kompressor to work on it next update

sorry

like theres ever gonna be a next update... but ill mention it to him, thanks