Source Elements the makers of Source Connect have released a file compression app that is specifically designed for audio files and session….
Source-Zip solves a specific problem: you need to send your audio session to another location, but you don’t have the time it takes to send such a large file.
Source-Zip compresses your audio session and all its accompanying files for quick and easy transfer over the internet. Source-zip creates a self-extracting file that you can email or ftp to someone quickly, and once unzipped it recreates your session files exactly as they were – including all meta-data that applications like Pro Tools need to recognize the files, and any other files that were zipped along with your audio. Here is the demo video…
There is a fully functional demo downloadable from here and when you can’t live without it after the 7 day trial is up then you can buy it for $48.
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Seven radio producers – all based in the north of England – have joined forces to launch a new co-operative venture – ‘Radio Wizards’. It’s equally remarkable that their aim now is to work together on every kind of sound production... except radio!
"It’s taken over a year to get to this point," says ‘wizard’ Mike Thornton, "but now we’ve got a viable business plan, we’ve launched our website and we’re already starting to attract commissions. As a facilities provider we decided to facilitate this partnership and set them up with a web site to help kickstart this excellent partnership."
December 19, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Anyone used this? How about sound quality degeneration due to compression?
January 13, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Mick,
My understanding is this isn’t lossy compression like mp3 but lossless compression like zipping up a file reduces the size but doesn’t throw any data away. So there should be no “sound” issues with using this product.
Mike.
January 18, 2010 at 8:35 am
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