Thank you, but it is about audio compression. You don't use this type of compression on text files. So, I'd agree with the other commenter in that I'm not talking about dynamic compression with hard/soft knees/attack and what not. Lossy compression done badly is horrible listening experience. It's all swishing and swooshing almost like being underwater. The top end is just all mushed together kind of like when you have a head cold and everything is all swimming sounding in your head.

There's some real confusion here.

There is:

   * dynamic range compression, referred to above as "audio compression" (confusingly)

   * psycho-acoustic aka "lossy" data compression

   * lossless data compression

The last two have nothing to do with the first.

>* dynamic range compression, referred to above as "audio compression" (confusingly)

Because when you're in a recording/editing session it is referred to as compression. As is in, "we need to use some some audio compression for that last bit". Anyone within earshot would not think someone is suggesting throwing that last bit throw an MP3 encoder.