"Just lately I have had to break it to my cat that her breakfast is going to wait till I get the theme of the day notated in MIDI; if I wait, the theme will be lost forever."

Do I know about that. I've had to write bits of new melodies on paper, because if I don't they're gone within a day or so. I used to remember stuff I was 'composing' for months. Now, I remember for hours, sometimes minutes :-)

The video gets into visual screens of what compression is and what it's done to sound we hear and subsequently how we hear. Worth struggling through when you have time and can get past some of the blather. I do agree it is irritating.