Compressing an MP3 file 300 times: Michael Bolton How Am I Supposed To Live Without You

Every time you recompress an MP3, some audio gets thrown away. I opened a FLAC file of this song in Adobe Audition, then saved it as a 128k MP3. I then opened the MP3 I just saved, and resaved it as a 128k MP3 with a new filename. Repeated that process 300 times. By the 5th generation, there are noticeable artifacts in the audio quality. By the 10th generation, it sounds like crap. And the quality only gets worse. The audio sounds progressively worse the more times it s compressed. It s like playing t