ZIP or RAR for PC and Mac customers?

[thesoundsmith]

I am selling audio files, and can compress either as ZIP or RAR files. As these will (hopefully0 be purchased by both PC and Mac usrs, I need the option with the best dual-platform supprt. Which is best (and why, please, if you know, even if it is just "It works, and the other doesn't on Mac"...)

Thanks.

[stevesh]

Use Zip.
I use RAR for my own internal stuff, but zip is pretty much universal. Macs use stuffit too, but nobody else does.

[thesoundsmith]

Use Zip.
I use RAR for my own internal stuff, but zip is pretty much universal. Macs use stuffit too, but nobody else does.

Thanks for the heads up, I forgot about Stuffit, which is the Mac universal decompressor.

Does Stuffit support ZIP and RAR both? I think it does ZIPs, so it sounds like that's the best solution, but any other opinions or comments?

[yellow1912]

zip, because windows by default can unzip it without any additional software required.

[DrByte]

Stuffit nowadays handles both ZIP and RAR, as well as several other formats.

As others have said, stick with ZIP if you want maximum compatibility.

[DrByte]

zip, because windows by default can unzip it without any additional software required.

True.

Granted, I've always hated the zip decompressor built-in to Windows ... because it often fails to handle folder expansion properly.
But, that's another topic altogether.

[thesoundsmith]

Thanks, guys (or gals.) Sounds like ZIP is the way.