huh, just tried using the listenbrainz zip export (which worked fine) but resulted in a *huge* (117MB) file.. because it does no compression (`store` mode)
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i522
making a zip with compression takes it down to 8.7MB
2025-08-09 22137, 2025
i522
... is that intentional? seems like doing at least some level of compression would definitely save space
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elkiensad[m]
<i522> "huh, just tried using the..." <- > <@522_:catgirl.cloud> huh, just tried using the listenbrainz zip export (which worked fine) but resulted in a *huge* (117MB) file.. because it does no compression (`store` mode)... (full message at <https://matrix.chatbrainz.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/chatbrainz.org/JLMDusflpiSvNuxkdMjtQeSk>)
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elkiensad[m]
compressing bunch of text files does not take much processing power too
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elomatreb[m]
looks like this is just the default of the python library for creating zip files that processes these background jobs
