caud (Compress AUDacity) compresses an Audacity
project. Unlike the broken audacity option File|Save a compressed ... caud preserves the
project in full. daud decompresses an archive.
The decompressed version is identical to the source (with -f wv) and almost identical
with -f ogg, where the audio samples may differ slightly because of the lossy nature of
ogg-vorbis (i.e. due to the compression-decompression cycle). Obviously the ogg files are
substantially smaller. cuad creates a single (tar) file. If your project was
awesom.aup, caud will create awesom.aup.save.tar.gz.
The original project is not modified in any way.
It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you verify the project decompresses correctly before deleting the original. Seriously!
You can choose the level of ogg compression but this is it.
caud uses the installed sox and tar - make sure those two are installed on your
system.
caud/daud were tested only on (Mint) Linux. Don't expect them to work on macOS or
windoz.
A typical invocation might be:
> export f=awesome.aup ; ~/bin/caud.py --format ogg -q 8 $f /tmp/