title: Can I prevent Git from compressing my audio files
body: <p>The project I'm working on is stored in GitHub. It is a desktop app and has a few audio assets, that me and my team need to keep in the repository.</p>
  <p>I quickly discovered that as soon as the files are pushed to the repository, they undergo a severe compression and become totally useless.</p>
  <p>I cannot share the repository here, because it is private, but the audio files are simple sound effects in <code>.wav</code> format, that are no bigger than 2MB. We even decided to move to <code>.mp3</code>, in order to have smaller files. This worked fine, even though I'm not sure if git has done some further compression.</p>
  <p>The problem is that we have only one bigger <code>.mp3</code>, about a minute long, that is a around 3MB. Of course, once pushed to the remote repository and pulled again, it has some cracks, due to compression.</p>
  <p>I could not find any documentation about this. I don't know if it is a git-specific or a GitHub-specific problem.</p>
  <p>Is there an option for me to configure the compression threshold? Or is there any other approach to solve this issue? I would argue that I'm not storing some insanely big binaries and it seems like a very common scenario.</p>
  <p>Thank you for spending time on this!</p>