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Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS don’t accurately seek them
AVFoundation, the low-level audio/video framework in iOS and macOS, does not accurately seek within VBR MP3s, making VBR impractical to use for long files such as podcasts. Jumping to a timestamp in an hour-long VBR podcast can result in an error of over a minute, without the listener even knowing because the…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Aug 15, 2016 | Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS don’t accurately seek them by okket | 202 | 85 |
