The same is true of WAV, MP3, and FLAC. I think the reason they're not supported is because audio files would be very unlikely to be smaller than 2MB, and if it's close enough then zipping it into an archive is still a good idea.
MP3, FLAC and OGG are specifically designed for compressing audio, so I doubt you would see much (if any) reduction in size using a generic data compression format like zip. (An exception might be if you compressed lots of different files into the same archive, but I doubt even that would make much difference.) However, if space/bandwidth is an issue then files could be stored using gzip compression at the server side and decompressed transparently by the browser. (This is known as pre-compression, as opposed to ordinary HTTP compression where files are compressed on the fly.)
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The same is true of WAV, MP3, and FLAC. I think the reason they're not supported is because audio files would be very unlikely to be smaller than 2MB, and if it's close enough then zipping it into an archive is still a good idea.
Fair enough. I've just recently had to support some users with audio-issues, which made this a 'missing' type.
Thomas/Lasconic: feel free to confirm this thought process and close the request as such
MP3, FLAC and OGG are specifically designed for compressing audio, so I doubt you would see much (if any) reduction in size using a generic data compression format like zip. (An exception might be if you compressed lots of different files into the same archive, but I doubt even that would make much difference.) However, if space/bandwidth is an issue then files could be stored using gzip compression at the server side and decompressed transparently by the browser. (This is known as pre-compression, as opposed to ordinary HTTP compression where files are compressed on the fly.)
.ogg is added as the allowed extensions.