Installation Compression Question
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Good people, We have created a .NET application that will include several MP3 music files. We have approximately 12 MP3 files. These files are quite large (some are around 11MB). Therefore, our installable executable file is also quite large. We plan on reducing the size of the MP3 files, however, I was wondering if there was some sort of best practice or common way to include music files in your .NET software application? If I zip up all the MP3 files, how do I tell .NET installer to unzip the files into the correct directory? Thanks, Blitz
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Good people, We have created a .NET application that will include several MP3 music files. We have approximately 12 MP3 files. These files are quite large (some are around 11MB). Therefore, our installable executable file is also quite large. We plan on reducing the size of the MP3 files, however, I was wondering if there was some sort of best practice or common way to include music files in your .NET software application? If I zip up all the MP3 files, how do I tell .NET installer to unzip the files into the correct directory? Thanks, Blitz
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Good people, We have created a .NET application that will include several MP3 music files. We have approximately 12 MP3 files. These files are quite large (some are around 11MB). Therefore, our installable executable file is also quite large. We plan on reducing the size of the MP3 files, however, I was wondering if there was some sort of best practice or common way to include music files in your .NET software application? If I zip up all the MP3 files, how do I tell .NET installer to unzip the files into the correct directory? Thanks, Blitz
MP3 is a compressed format, and it's lossy, hence it gives a quite good compression rate. Zipping MP3s won't usually reduce their size enough to make a difference.
2+2=5 for very large amounts of 2 (always loved that one hehe!)