Zips on Emby

[Acuring 0]

Is there a way I can store zips on emby? I have some files I'd like to keep and I think this is a great way to store it and access them where ever.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

2 hours ago, Acuring said:

Is there a way I can store zips on emby? I have some files I'd like to keep and I think this is a great way to store it and access them where ever.

You can "store" them wherever you want but Emby cannot unzip or play them so they will be ignored.
BTW: If you are zipping the files to save space then be aware that most modern digital video files are already quite compressed and zipping them saves very little space. I "think" the same is true for many/most audio formats but I have not looked into that at all.

[Acuring 0]

How though? I've tried to use mixed content and they don't show up. And no I'm not compressing them for videos. I just want to have access to these files anywhere in the world basically and I want it centralized with my films and shows. 

[guunter 49]

4 hours ago, Acuring said:

Is there a way I can store zips on emby? I have some files I'd like to keep and I think this is a great way to store it and access them where ever.

Emby is a media server not a file server. There are other free solutions for that.

[user24 313]

2 hours ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

I "think" the same is true for many/most audio formats but I have not looked into that at all.

Yes, that is very likely the correct thinking!

Both FLAC and MP3 (and probably every other audio filetype besides WAV) are already compressed. Trying to compress them again with ZIP, RAR, etc. is usually minimally successful, and can even result in larger files!!!

About the only way to significantly reduce the file size is to transcode them to a lower bitrate or a more efficient compression algorithm. This could potentially reduce sound quality even more?

ZIP may be somewhat useful to store WAV backups - but you can also do this with FLAC and still convert back to WAV, with no loss of quality, if you ever need the backup files. So why not just use FLAC which Emby and all other music programs/apps will easily play?

Either lossless FLAC (for sound quality) or lossy MP3 (for mobile or size reasons) are typically the most popular options.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

10 hours ago, Acuring said:

How though? I've tried to use mixed content and they don't show up. And no I'm not compressing them for videos. I just want to have access to these files anywhere in the world basically and I want it centralized with my films and shows. 

Then unzip them. Zipping does not give any advantage to speak of and there are many many drawbacks. Emby does NOT support or, as far as I know, ever plan to support extracting files from zip files. It just adds an unnecessary complication to a simple issue. 
As I have said you can store zip files wherever you want but accessing them is your problem, not Emby's.