+Compression artifacts are the visual or auditory degradations that arise when [Data Compression](/wiki/data_compression), particularly [Lossy Compression](/wiki/lossy_compression), discards information to reduce file size. These distortions, like blockiness in images or garbling in sound, are the visible echoes of lost data, a trade-off for efficiency.
+## See also
+- [Image Quality](/wiki/image_quality)
+- [Audio Quality](/wiki/audio_quality)
+- [Digital Media](/wiki/digital_media)
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