From: Date: August 27 1999 5:43pm
Subject: Re: music files
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Thanx all. 


On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Paul DuBois wrote:

> At 4:03 PM +0100 8/27/99, A. Brandic wrote:
> >Can MySql store MP3 or real audio files?  Can you store it as a blob? how
> >do you compress and uncompress (on play)?
> 
> A BLOB type can store anything, including arbitrary data such as images
> or sounds, or the output from gzip.
> 
> As for MP3 compression and uncompression, you'd have to handle that
> yourself.  MySQL is not an MP3 player and it won't interpret your data
> for you, it simply provides the repository for storage and retrieval.
> 
> --
> Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
> Northern League Chronicles: http://www.snake.net/nl/
>