Entroper on 30 December 2007
| Sqrl said: Whatever they did to require a 30-60MB file is just outright stupid. The download should involve the actual song along with at most 500KB of data for what notes need to be played when and by who. Thats just bad file formatting. Unless there is something more to those files they should easily be able to cut it down to a 4-6MB average. |
They may be using raw audio instead of MP3/WMA/AAC/OGG/your favorite compressed music format. Lossless compression (no license fees) would cut those file sizes in half. 384kbps VBR OGG files (no license fees) would be indistinguishable from the original at 28% of the size. You'd be looking at about 160 songs on a 2 GB SD card (20 bucks).
It's a no-brainer.
Which is why it won't happen.
