I made an album available on floppy disk

[Incredible]

Yo I listened to all of them, nice chill vibes. Hopefully this isn't a stupid question but just curious as to why if you compressed the songs why didn't it make them shorter? Original and floppy cut are the same length. Well I guess you said the size didn't get reduced. Did I just answer my own question? Lol

[Answer]

Originally Posted by Incredible

Yo I listened to all of them, nice chill vibes. Hopefully this isn't a stupid question but just curious as to why if you compressed the songs why didn't it make them shorter? Original and floppy cut are the same length. Well I guess you said the size didn't get reduced. Did I just answer my own question? Lol

Any file in your computer is just a bunch of 1's and 0's. Say you had a song, and the file looked something like this

111000101010101111100000101010101010101010101

I could change one small part of the file contents and if it's something really small, you probably can't even hear the difference between the one above and the one below

111000101010101111100000101010101010101010100

there are mathematic ways to determine which of the 1's and 0's have the least amount of impact on the song itself, and that's essentially what compression is. So in essence, your song might be reduced to something like

1110001010

and you may or may not even be able to tell a difference. of course if you compress it too much it becomes noticeable.

WAV files are really big, sometimes 100 mb or so for a song, because they contain lots of information (lot's of 1's and 0's) whereas MP3 files are compressed and much smaller (about 3-4 mb for the same song).

But that has no impact on the length of the song itself. It's just removing a little bit of the quality from every sound you hear