diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d858803..f18764b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -54,12 +54,13 @@ $tar->close();
 // To create a TAR archive directly in memory, create() it, add*()
 // files and then either save() or getArchive() it:
 $tar = new Tar();
+$tar->setCompression(9, Archive::COMPRESS_BZIP);
 $tar->create();
 $tar->addFile(...);
 $tar->addData(...);
 ...
-$tar->save('myfile.tgz'); // compresses and saves it
-echo $tar->getArchive(Archive::COMPRESS_GZIP); // compresses and returns it
+$tar->save('myfile.tbz'); // compresses and saves it
+echo $tar->getArchive(); // compresses and returns it
 ```
 
 Differences between Tar and Zip: Tars are compressed as a whole, while Zips compress each file individually. Therefore
diff --git a/src/Tar.php b/src/Tar.php
index ef532a3..58bf446 100644
--- a/src/Tar.php
+++ b/src/Tar.php
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ class Tar extends Archive
         $this->compressioncheck($type);
         $this->comptype  = $type;
         $this->complevel = $level;
+        if($level == 0) $this->comptype = Archive::COMPRESS_NONE;
+        if($type == Archive::COMPRESS_NONE) $this->complevel = 0;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -366,7 +368,7 @@ class Tar extends Archive
     public function save($file)
     {
         if ($this->comptype === Archive::COMPRESS_AUTO) {
-            $this->setCompression($this->filetype($this->complevel, $file));
+            $this->setCompression($this->complevel, $this->filetype($file));
         }
 
         if (!file_put_contents($file, $this->getArchive())) {
diff --git a/tests/tar.test.php b/tests/tar.test.php
index 6b44b0f..a43edea 100644
--- a/tests/tar.test.php
+++ b/tests/tar.test.php
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class Tar_TestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         $tdir = ltrim($dir, '/');
         $tmp  = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'dwtartest');
 
-        $tar->create($tmp, Tar::COMPRESS_NONE);
+        $tar->create($tmp);
         $tar->AddFile("$dir/testdata1.txt");
         $tar->AddFile("$dir/foobar/testdata2.txt", 'noway/testdata2.txt');
         $tar->addData('another/testdata3.txt', 'testcontent3');
@@ -332,11 +332,12 @@ class Tar_TestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
     public function test_createlongfile()
     {
         $tar = new Tar();
+        $tar->setCompression(0);
         $tmp = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'dwtartest');
 
         $path = '0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789.txt';
 
-        $tar->create($tmp, Tar::COMPRESS_NONE);
+        $tar->create($tmp);
         $tar->addData($path, 'testcontent1');
         $tar->close();
 
@@ -354,6 +355,7 @@ class Tar_TestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
     public function test_createlongpathustar()
     {
         $tar = new Tar();
+        $tar->setCompression(0);
         $tmp = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'dwtartest');
 
         $path = '';
@@ -362,7 +364,7 @@ class Tar_TestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         }
         $path = rtrim($path, '/');
 
-        $tar->create($tmp, Tar::COMPRESS_NONE);
+        $tar->create($tmp);
         $tar->addData("$path/test.txt", 'testcontent1');
         $tar->close();
 
@@ -382,6 +384,7 @@ class Tar_TestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
     public function test_createlongpathgnu()
     {
         $tar = new Tar();
+        $tar->setCompression(0);
         $tmp = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'dwtartest');
 
         $path = '';
@@ -390,7 +393,7 @@ class Tar_TestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         }
         $path = rtrim($path, '/');
 
-        $tar->create($tmp, Tar::COMPRESS_NONE);
+        $tar->create($tmp);
         $tar->addData("$path/test.txt", 'testcontent1');
         $tar->close();
 
@@ -437,9 +440,10 @@ class Tar_TestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
     {
         $dir = dirname(__FILE__).'/tar';
         $tar = new Tar();
+        $tar->setCompression(0);
         $tar->create();
         $tar->addFile("$dir/zero.txt", 'zero.txt');
-        $file = $tar->getArchive(Tar::COMPRESS_NONE);
+        $file = $tar->getArchive();
 
         $this->assertEquals(512 * 3, strlen($file)); // 1 header block + 2 footer blocks
     }
@@ -447,9 +451,10 @@ class Tar_TestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
     public function test_zerodata()
     {
         $tar = new Tar();
+        $tar->setCompression(0);
         $tar->create();
         $tar->addData('zero.txt', '');
-        $file = $tar->getArchive(Tar::COMPRESS_NONE);
+        $file = $tar->getArchive();
 
         $this->assertEquals(512 * 3, strlen($file)); // 1 header block + 2 footer blocks
     }
@@ -461,9 +466,10 @@ class Tar_TestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
     {
         $dir = dirname(__FILE__).'/tar';
         $tar = new Tar();
+        $tar->setCompression(0);
         $tar->create();
         $tar->addFile("$dir/block.txt", 'block.txt');
-        $file = $tar->getArchive(Tar::COMPRESS_NONE);
+        $file = $tar->getArchive();
 
         $this->assertEquals(512 * 4, strlen($file)); // 1 header block + data block + 2 footer blocks
     }
@@ -471,9 +477,10 @@ class Tar_TestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
     public function test_blockdata()
     {
         $tar = new Tar();
+        $tar->setCompression(0);
         $tar->create();
         $tar->addData('block.txt', str_pad('', 512, 'x'));
-        $file = $tar->getArchive(Tar::COMPRESS_NONE);
+        $file = $tar->getArchive();
 
         $this->assertEquals(512 * 4, strlen($file)); // 1 header block + data block + 2 footer blocks
     }