title: Windows Phone 7.5 XAP Package Size requirement
body: <p>Windows Phone 7.1/7.5/Mango Silverlight App.</p>
  
  <p>Coming from here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8977672/need-clarification-on-using-audio-on-button-click-background-audio-etc-in-wind">Need clarification on using audio on button click, background audio, etc in Windows Phone</a></p>
  
  <p>Our designer will be converting all the mp3s to .wav files. Done few and they are coming to about 200kb each.
  The current estimate is we might have like 100+ of those for our app. </p>
  
  <p>I know the Certification Requirment is: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The maximum size of the XAP package file is 225 MB.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Designer said he will try to compress them down to about 100kb making sure sound quality is ok as well.</p>
  
  <p>Though I am sure we won't exceed 225MB but I think lesser is better as it will affect the download time on the device as well. Don't want the user to quit download halfway.
  I read somewhere there is some time restiction as well for certification.</p>
  
  <p>Is this acceptable, or am I missing any other strategies for keeping my audio files small other than compression?  Are there any other considerations I need to take into account when certifying a large app?  </p>