Small maps WITH music

[ANkolcheca]

Have you ever played run kitty run? Or maybe slide ninja slide?
Of course you did!
And you know what? Those maps a small. They download fast and do not take much space.
AND THEY DO HAVE MUSIC!
how? how are they so small and still have music?
Can someone explain that to me or maybe ask the guy who made them?

 

[trolman]

Well the music is compresed and the map doesent have any other imports and is pritty simple.

 

[ANkolcheca]

Compressed THAT much?
How?
i know some compressing programs but they are not even half that good
can you give me a name of a program that compresses that much?

 

[Azsure]

Yes, that's what happens when you import a music in a small map, it gets compressed. But that only happens in maps, not in campaigns, anyway, of course, if the music is a mp3 file and it get's compressed of course that it won't have too much size, like 900 KB or less.. I don't know..

 

[ANkolcheca]

no it does not compress automaticly (as far as i know and i checked it sooo many times)
it makes the map size bigger for what was the mp3 size.
and thats just too much

 

[Azsure]

Really? that's weird 'cause that doesn't happens to me as far as I know...

 

[ANkolcheca]

do you use some special version of worldeditor?

 

[Azsure]

Not really, I still have the old version, why?

 

[YourNameHere]

wav files automatically compress. I once imported 28mb of sounds in wav format and my map ended up being 10mb big. (together with various models and skins)

 

[ANkolcheca]

because when i import a 3mb mp3 my map goes 3 mb bigger and that sucks
so i should use wav ya?

 

[YourNameHere]

You should try it.

 

[PurgeandFire]

Yep, try .wav. Else, use Audacity to reduce the bit rate to compress the songs. I doubt those maps you listed have 3 mb songs. They probably have one small looping song or something. Either that or they compressed it enough to get it to not make an extreme difference.

 

[ANkolcheca]

thanks!

 

[Spyda Man]

if you want to achieve something like RKR, most of the time they only use snippets from the song and loop em, not the whole song, so essentially by cutting out a part of song and looping it, the size will also be small as well