Compressing images manually

[Yash-Ainapure]

while cloning the project images has larger sizes which makes the contributor download all the images .
Solution to it is compressing it manually or uploading it on a database storage.
Image below shows the present size of images total is - 376 MB

[ShwetKhatri2001]

Good find. I personally faced this issue. Better if the images can be hosted somewhere for free and can be used as urls directly. If not, then compression of images is required.

[Yash-Ainapure]

yeah

Good find. I personally faced this issue. Better if the images can be hosted somewhere for free and can be used as urls directly. If not, then compression of images is required.

yess

[Yash-Ainapure]

Good find. I personally faced this issue. Better if the images can be hosted somewhere for free and can be used as urls directly. If not, then compression of images is required.

@ShwetKhatri2001 I would like to host it on firebase, but for that i need your(owner's) email id and use that for firebase account.
we can contact on discord for that

[Yash-Ainapure]

@ShwetKhatri2001 ,any updates on this ? . I would like to compress images and again push to this repo , but this is too much work as there are so much images.
Could you just consider this issue as hard please.

[ShwetKhatri2001]

You can simply compress and replace them using few free resources such as https://tinypng.com/.
It can be considered as medium level issue at max since it will not be involving any kind of coding.
Let me know if you'd like to work on this.

[Yash-Ainapure]

You can simply compress and replace them using few free resources such as https://tinypng.com/. It can be considered as medium level issue at max since it will not be involving any kind of coding. Let me know if you'd like to work on this.

let this issue be open then , if someone want to work they can.

[SadanandMiskin]

Hey @ShwetKhatri2001 ,I would Like to work on this issue , Can u assign me under SWOC'24

[ShwetKhatri2001]

Okay go ahead, You're assigned.

[SadanandMiskin]

@ShwetKhatri2001 I went through the songs-image folder , The maximum size of that folder is due to the audio files (.mp3) ,The image files are not much in size.
So I guess the issue lies with compressing of audio files not images.

EXAMPLE-
songs-images/TopBollywoodHits -> mp3 file size is more than image

[ShwetKhatri2001]

Any easy to implement solution you have in mind for that ? Compressing audio files may work as well.
The motive is to reduce the size of the project without disturbing the functionality.

[JoydeepMallick]

Any easy to implement solution you have in mind for that ? Compressing audio files may work as well. The motive is to reduce the size of the project without disturbing the functionality.

@ShwetKhatri2001 I would like to compress the audio files so as to reduce the overall project size, on bit of research I find of reducing the bit rate can reduce size of files significantly but need to keep in mind not to reduce too much which will lead to loss of sound quality and a strange humming sound getting added.

Sample without compression (~5mb):-

001.Brishti.Tomake.Dilam.2.mp4

Sample with extreme compression(~1mb, 32kbps bit rate) -- sound gets a little strange melody reduced, this song seems to point out the fact more maybe due to some particular sound element(😅note : I am not into music)

001.Brishti.Tomake.Dilam.mp4

Sample with okok sound (~4mb, 128kbps bit rate) -- sounds decent to me

001.Brishti.Tomake.Dilam45.mp4

I would like to work on audio file size issue and compress them as much as possible without losing quality in songs-images folder under SWOC 24 project contribution if you assign this issue to me. Hope my above idea will reduce the file size if not much but considerable amount.

Maybe at a later stage we can simply host all music in a remote server and then inside the swetify.js we can just add links to music and they will play, only keeping the images in folder in github would be enough then I guess.

[ShwetKhatri2001]

Let's keep it like this. Keep this issue for compressing images only to be solved by @SadanandMiskin .
@JoydeepMallick you can raise a new issue with such a description for compressing audio files. I'll assign you that.

[JoydeepMallick]

Let's keep it like this. Keep this issue for compressing images only to be solved by @SadanandMiskin . @JoydeepMallick you can raise a new issue with such a description for compressing audio files. I'll assign you that.

As mentioned @ShwetKhatri2001 sir I have opened a new issue here instead regarding this.

[SadanandMiskin]

Any easy to implement solution you have in mind for that ? Compressing audio files may work as well.
The motive is to reduce the size of the project without disturbing the functionality.

@ShwetKhatri2001 you can assign this issue to @JoydeepMallick .

[Yash-Ainapure]

@ShwetKhatri2001 , Making such changes is good but won't work for longer duration. why not create a database and push all the things there. (there are many free databases so this won't charge anything to you ).

Let others first compress it and then we could put it on database . what do you think about this??

[ShwetKhatri2001]

Sure, will do this later.

[ShwetKhatri2001]

@SadanandMiskin can't you just compress the images being used on our website?

[SadanandMiskin]

@ShwetKhatri2001 , Making such changes is good but won't work for longer duration. why not create a database and push all the things there. (there are many free databases so this won't charge anything to you ).

Let others first compress it and then we could put it on database . what do you think about this??

@Yash-Ainapure and also using only database is not a good option , as if you request for a particular song ,server will fetch that whole song till that no music will be played, so there the application becomes slow ,, to avoid it you need to build something which Fetches a song in real-time like webRTC so that it doesn't make website slow.

[SadanandMiskin]

@SadanandMiskin can't you just compress the images being used on our website?

That's already is very low size , like 50kb - 60kb , if you compress more the images will break,

[Yash-Ainapure]

@ShwetKhatri2001 , Making such changes is good but won't work for longer duration. why not create a database and push all the things there. (there are many free databases so this won't charge anything to you ).
Let others first compress it and then we could put it on database . what do you think about this??

@Yash-Ainapure and also using only database is not a good option , as if you request for a particular song ,server will fetch that whole song till that no music will be played, so there the application becomes slow ,, to avoid it you need to build something which Fetches a song in real-time like webRTC so that it doesn't make website slow.

I don't know whether webRTC is used for that purpose. but we can store that specific song in local storage/cache memory.
I don't think it will slow down the website as the songs aren't larger than 5mb per song. we can make a logic for that to so download specific song only not the all list of songs at a time

[SadanandMiskin]

@Yash-Ainapure am not telling to use webrtc ,, but something like that,