overcompressed
Excessively packed down
Overcompressed describes something that has been compressed too much, losing quality or detail in the process.
The term appears most often in digital contexts—an overcompressed image shows visible artifacts, an overcompressed audio file sounds flat or distorted: The video looks terrible because it's overcompressed.
In audio engineering, overcompressed dynamics lack natural variation between loud and quiet passages.
Piece cut out
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- lossySacrificing fidelity for size
- bitrateData transfer speed
- mp3Compressed audio encoding
pumping · squashed · brickwall · transients · encoding · quantization · transcoding · audiophile
clipping
Piece cut out
mp3 · pumping · squashed · brickwall · transients · encoding · quantization · transcoding · audiophile · psychoacoustics
blocky
Resembling stacked cubes
- pixelatedComposed of visible squares
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- bandingAdding decorative strips
posterization · low-resolution · blurry · jagged · aliased · smeared · muddy · bitrate · streaming · buffering