WHY USE SOURCE-ZIP?

As an example here we have zipped an audio files folder of exactly 1,000MB (1,048,463,501 bytes). From the table below, it's clear that you can save significant transfer and storage resources.

Setting	Size	Reduction %	Visual guide	Transfer time
Original	1,000 MB	-		1 hour, 30 minutes
Small	105.5 MB	10 %		10 minutes
Medium	131.2 MB	13 %		12 minutes
Large	157.2 MB	16 %		14 minutes
Lossless	555.2 MB	55 %		50 minutes

The time to Source-Zip the folder of 1,000MB took around 1.5 minutes on a MacBook Pro. The transfer time assumes an upload speed of 1.5MB per second (T1).

Until now, you couldn't just zip audio files using the zip software that is built into your computer, because audio files contain complex data that does not respond to standard 'zip' compression. If you compress WAV or AIFF audio files using other compression software you'll lose all meta-data that is required by your audio program to quickly re-open sessions and start working. Source-Zip allows you to easily take all of your audio files in your session folder, zip them into a much smaller size using either the latest in MP4 compression technology or Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), and then easily unzip them without requiring Source-Zip on the other computer by way of Source-Unzip, a self-extracting file.

Source-Zip allows you to compress 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 audio meta-data that applications like Pro Tools need to recognize the files, and any other files that were zipped along with your audio.