[linux-audio-dev] Song file format : ascii or binary ?

[Greg Lee]

Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> Jorge García wrote:
> 
>>
>> I think zlib does that,
>>
> 
> I can't see anything about archiving files in zlib.h, it's only about 
> compressing data. But I just found this one :
> http://www.feep.net/libtar
> 
> It looks very nice and simple. And it seems I could do on-the-fly FLAC 
> compression, while on-the-fly-writing the tarball itself.
> 

See also zziplib.  From the README:

PROJECT
   The zziplib provides read access to zipped files in a zip-archive,
   using compression based solely on free algorithms provided by zlib.
   It also provides a functionality to overlay the archive filesystem
   with the filesystem of the operating system environment.

...

HOMEPAGE
   The zziplib project is hosted at SourceForge, the complete
   documentation can be found at http://zziplib.sf.net - the
   SourceForge servers are also used to distribute the sources
   of the zziplib project. Releases are announced via the
   freshmeat services on http://freshmeat.net/projects/zziplib