On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Anahata wrote: > There is a case for compressing music when it's listened to in a noisy > environment. Sadly that's almost everywhere these days, but in a car is > is good common example of an environment where sound compression is > really helpful. I've tried it with a minidisc of some chamber music, and > while the result isn't terribly musical, at least it's nearly all > audible while driving. I've had exactly the same experience, I'd prefer it is car minidisc players and FM radios (MP3 and DAB now I guess :) had builtin compressors, and music wasn't so compressed at source. Sadly "louder is better" to humans. Radio 3 in the UK makes very little use of compressors, but they are the only one I know of. - Steve
