How do i compress sound files for Blockland

[Xalos]

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.

Any reduction in sample rate that noticeably reduces file download times will also noticeably destroy sound quality.  The highest frequency that a given sound file can reliably reproduce is half its sample rate - a file with a sample rate of 44.1k can't actually make a 44.1 kHz sine wave, only a 22.05 kHz sine wave.


However, nothing I can say will provide as clear a demonstration as this:
Here's the Blockland player death sound, at its in-game sample rate (22050 samples/second) and at half its in-game sample rate (11025 samples/second).

BL_Death_22050Hz.wav
BL_Death_11025Hz.wav

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[BluetoothBoy]

I answered your question in the General Modification Help board.

[boodals 2]

Here's the Blockland player death sound, at its in-game sample rate (22050 samples/second) and at half its in-game sample rate (11025 samples/second).

BL_Death_22050Hz.wav
BL_Death_11025Hz.wav

Wait what, these have the same file sizes? Is the reduction that small?


And yeah I totally exaggerated the 'cutting download times in half', but it did help (or at least people stopped complaining about it).

[Xalos]

Wait what, these have the same file sizes? Is the reduction that small?

No, I had difficulty actually exporting them at the correct sample rates.  Eventually I got frustrated and just changed the sound sample rates.

Actually changing the file's sample rate would reduce the filesize by almost 50%, but not quite.

For a .wav file, at least. With a file format that has compression, the relationship would be more complicated.