Compressing Even Smaller

[AFPoster]

So I know in Leopard and probably any OS for Mac's you can compress your files, but is there any way to compress them even more? I had a file that was 321mb's and when I compressed it, it brought it down to 317mb's. Obviously that didn't do me any good. Does anyone have a program or another suggestion?

 

[r.j.s]

What kind of files are they?

If they are photos, music, movies, anything other than text basically, you will have a hard time compressing it much smaller than that.

 

[AFPoster]

yeah it's music. I am trying to compress a music CD so I can place it on my iDisk for backup.

 

[emt1]

Uh... convert to MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, or FLAC.

 

[AFPoster]

Uh... convert to MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, or FLAC.

It's music downloaded from iTunes so it's in .m4a still change it?

 

[r.j.s]

It's music downloaded from iTunes so it's in .m4a still change it?

No, it is compressed as much as possible while still retaining quality.

 

[emt1]

It's music downloaded from iTunes so it's in .m4a still change it?

No there's nothing you can do to make it smaller in that case.