But (file) compression doesn't hurt the quality! At least not compared with post-production. An entire generation of music sounds like crap BOTH before AND af

But (file) compression doesn't hurt the quality! At least not compared with post-production. An entire generation of music sounds like crap BOTH before AND after compression with mp3. e.g. Recent RHCP or Metallica records are squashed to hell if you whether you are listening to them on 1411 kbps CD or 128 kbps MP3. I'm not as familiar with image production, but if you think 100 KB is too small, then 200 KB is likely fine, and it's still many times smaller. Or make it 500 KB -- it depends highly on the image. I think the problem is that the way to use compression effectively is unfortunately not common knowledge and not really documented (maybe someone here has a good link)