#compression (27 links)
- Performance Calendar » Lossy Image Compression calendar.perfplanet.com
Lossy is a scary word but when it comes to images it provides dramatic savings & minimal loss in quality via @sergeyche http://t.co/Idddi9Ac
- Online YUI Compressor refresh-sf.com
- JPEGmini - Your Photos on a Diet! jpegmini.com
- Django Packages : Asset managers djangopackages.com
Comparison of "Asset managers for combining/compressing JavaScript/CSS and for versioning your media files."
- Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine wordmagazine.co.uk
"There's a little-watched video on Maroon Five's YouTube channel which documents the torturous, tedious process of crafting an instantly forgettable mainstream radio hit. It's fourteen minutes of elegantly dishevelled chaps sitting in leather sofas, playing $15,000 vintage guitars next to $200,000 studio consoles, staring at notepads and endlessly discussing how little they like the track (called Makes Me Wonder), and how it doesn't have a chorus. Even edited down, the tedium is mind-boggling as they play the same lame riff over and over and over again. At one point, singer Adam Levine says: "I'm sick of trying to engineer songs to be hits." But that's exactly he proceeds to do."
- The Loudness War Analyzed « Music Machinery musicmachinery.com
I’m interested in looking at the loudness for the recordings of a number of artists to see how wide-spread this loudness war really is. To do this I used the Echo Nest remix API and a bit of Python to collect and plot loudness for a set of recordings. I did two experiments. First I looked at the loudness for music by some of my favorite or well known artists. Then I looked at loudness over a large collection of music.
- Turn Me Up! | Bringing Dynamics Back To Music turnmeup.org
A non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records.
- ImageOptim – PNG/JPEG/GIF optimizer for Mac OS X imageoptim.pornel.net
"Optimizes images [...] by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations." Be interesting to see how this stacks up against smush.it.
- Online javascript beautifier jsbeautifier.org
"This beautifier can process your messy or compacted javascript, making it all neatly and consistently formatted and readable." Handy for making sense of minified scripts.
- web-optimizator - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
Does about a billion things to optimize sites. Tempting but not sure how much I'd trust this; feels like a sledgehammer option.
- django-assets - Google Code code.google.com
- jawr: Jawr - More than a Javascript/CSS compressor jawr.dev.java.net
A tunable packaging solution for Javascript and CSS which allows for rapid development of resources in separate module files.
- Dean Edwards: Notes on JavaScript Compression dean.edwards.name
The most efficient way to serve compressed JavaScript is to first run your code through a JavaScript compressor that shrinks variable and argument names, and then serve the resulting code using gzip compression.
- IEEE Spectrum: The Future of Music spectrum.ieee.org
"The loudness war, what many audiophiles refer to as an assault on music (and ears), has been an open secret of the recording industry for nearly the past two decades and has garnered more attention in recent years as CDs have pushed the limits of loudnes
- jscsscomp - Google Code code.google.com
jscsscomp is a PHP script what compress JavaScript and CSS files when they are requested from the server.
- PNGGauntlet - PNG Compression Software | BRH.numbera.com brh.numbera.com
PNGGauntlet is a .NET program that uses Ken Silverman's PNGOut to optimize PNG files.