What is the bare minimum amount of data you need to reproduce a piece of music? Researchers at the University of Rochester think they know, and are developing a new compression technology that can ...

Large files are difficult to share via email or through any other media without first compressing them. Windows makes it easy to compress large files through a zip process. Alternative services also ...

Smith Micro Software on Wednesday announced the release of StuffIt Deluxe 12, a major new release of the popular Mac compression and archival software. StuffIt Deluxe 12 costs $79.99, and upgrades ...

A good quality DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) is one of the crucial elements when it comes to deciding the kind of audio experience you can expect from a device. And at large, the same holds true ...

MP3s have become so ubiquitous that we often forget it’s a compression format. When music gets trimmed to one-tenth of its original size, lots of information deemed “unimportant” gets tossed out. Here ...

Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...

If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...