wondering about zip music files.

[swaggypancakes6]

Hey everyone,
Im new to the whole android world so if i sound like a dumby please just help me out lol.
Basically i was wondering if i zip my downloaded music files and send them to a music folder on my external sd will they still be in my music player. Does zipping a file make it take up less space? Im using an lg l70 from metro pcs and the internal storage is just really lame. I recently rooted and i would really like some pointers on how to store my files like music, photos and apps ect.
Like i said im kind of new to this but if i could get some good pointers in the right direction i know i could get going.
Thanks and i hope to hear back soon.

 

[JesseKnows]

Music files are already compressed, unless they are wav format. Applying zip will not likely reduce their size.

If you want to play wav files I'd convert them to a compressed music format (mp3 if you can tolerate loss, flac or some other lossless if you care) rather than zipping them.

 

[jma9454]

I think zipping music files will reduce size by a bit. But they have to be unzipped to be able to play. They cannot be read unless that are unzipped