Ah Professor, you're over my head again. You seem to be talking about the need to bundle file formats which don't yet exist. Now wait a minute, they did exist in the quadraphonic wonder of the 70's that no one liked.
End user don't deal with files. They press play.
I believe you are confusing containers such as AVI with bundlers such as Zip. There was a reason for AVI having audio and video in the same file. Microsoft engineers didn't just get together and say "Let's make this more complicated than we have to." There was a reason for bundlers like ZIP particularly when hard drives were 10MB ande cost two grand. But now? Okay, it still makes sense over a network but we're talking about a stand alone computer here.
These days we don't need the extra disk space afforded by zipping. An MP3 file is already in a container (for those of you who just tuned in a container contains data bytes and formatting information which may or may not be related to a single function) and CDG is ALL data and garbage bytes.
So, when you rip you take the extra time to zip the files and when you play you take the extra time to unzip and increase the chance of error as any extra process does (with all due respect to Drs. Reed and Solomon) and all to gain exactly what?
That's the question Prof. The disadvantage to zipping karaoke files is time, extra processing and attendent complications. The advantage is the saving of disk space which we don't currently need and WHAT???
End user don't deal with files. They press play.
I believe you are confusing containers such as AVI with bundlers such as Zip. There was a reason for AVI having audio and video in the same file. Microsoft engineers didn't just get together and say "Let's make this more complicated than we have to." There was a reason for bundlers like ZIP particularly when hard drives were 10MB ande cost two grand. But now? Okay, it still makes sense over a network but we're talking about a stand alone computer here.
These days we don't need the extra disk space afforded by zipping. An MP3 file is already in a container (for those of you who just tuned in a container contains data bytes and formatting information which may or may not be related to a single function) and CDG is ALL data and garbage bytes.
So, when you rip you take the extra time to zip the files and when you play you take the extra time to unzip and increase the chance of error as any extra process does (with all due respect to Drs. Reed and Solomon) and all to gain exactly what?
That's the question Prof. The disadvantage to zipping karaoke files is time, extra processing and attendent complications. The advantage is the saving of disk space which we don't currently need and WHAT???