My download of Sonic Couture's EP73 piano library is in .rar and I haven't bought Winrar in the x64 era. I have an old x86 version somewhere, someplace.
 
Will 7-zip cover my needs?
 
Is there any better choice? The read me file that came with the sample library implied that Winrar is the best choice.

Been using it on Win7 64bit for some time. Works fine for rar files.

Thanks Scook.
 
I had 7zip on an older laptop too and just never installed this stuff when most of my zip needs became covered in the OS tools.

Same here, 7zip works great with RARs on Win7 - it's all I use on two different machines. 
 

7Zip is great for all kinds of things!! :-)
 
One example is that you can zip up a project of any size and break it into 100 MB chunks if you want.
 
Then your friend can receive all the 100 MB chunks and unzip.
 
You can also password protect it.

I wonder why Sonic Couture states that using anything but WinRar for Windows is likely to result in errors.

Thanks everyone!

mike_mccue
I wonder why Sonic Couture states that using anything but WinRar for Windows is likely to result in errors.

because they paid for something from the winrar lot?

7zip worked well.
 
In fact the SonicCouture Clavinet library .zip didn't extract properly using the native Windows .zip functionality.
 
I had to purposely use 7zip to get an error free extraction. That was weird.
 
It makes me wonder if there are errors in the remaining files that I thought Windows native zip extraction processed without issue.

mike_mccue
[some] .zip didn't extract properly using the native Windows .zip functionality.

this is not uncommon, 7zip ftw :-)