playing zip/rar straight out

melekalikimaka

ok i have a collection of maybe 130 gig of zipped and rared mp3 albums. I want to be able to play them with out extracting them. i know fubar 2000 can do this but it's not very good for large collections , so anyone know any other programs that can do this?

oh and mpc support would be nice

Khannie

zipping / raring mp3's will give you minimal extra compression. I know this doesn't answer your question but you're better off leaving them extracted tbh.

Edit: You could extract them all in one go with a command line archiver (or a script if they're in a fancy directory structure).

melekalikimaka

the issue is. i've bout 2/3s of em unzipped, not alot of space and i'd like to keep them zipped for archiving purposes, not enough room for both really, so until i pick up a new hard drive in the near future and extract em over all at , i'd like to be able to get access to all them in a library type way

Khannie

Fair enough.

8T8

You should check out this archival program comparison I think one of them might have the feature you are looking for.

If you don't find something the TUGZip program has an explorer like interface which would allow you to browse your collection and simply open a file not exaclty what you want but close enough.

melekalikimaka

i'm using foobar2000... its not great but at least it works...tho it doesn't read .ace files grrr