> > Heh, I though the meaning of CHD (Compressed Hunks of Data) was enough to hint it > was > > a compressed file. According to chd.c in the source, it uses zlib compression codec > > (used in gzip aka GNU zip format). > > > > So if I'm not interpreting this wrong, a CHD is basically a container for storing a > > variation of a .gz (or .zip) compressed file. Which makes the point of compressing > a > > CHD file into a ZIP file retarded. > > zlib handles all the formats commonly used in .zip, which is a superset of what .gz > uses. But beyond that, yes, zipping a chd is pretty dumb because it uses zip > compression internally
I thought CHD was "chunks of data".
If you're using zlib then that means that any non-digital audio data is probably being compressed as much as possible already, so. Yeah. Fine by me!
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