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Re:Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS do... by archagon on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:53PM (#12293343)
When your solution to an incredibly minor and easily-solvable problem is to ask people to bug Apple engineers about adding new features to a decade-old encoder, maybe you're on the wrong track.

I'm frustrated by Marco's extreme fussiness, not his curiosity. (And there's no doubt his curiosity often leads to interesting places. I learned some great tidbits about MP3 encoding in the last few episodes!)

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Re:Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS do... by MBCook on Monday August 15, 2016 @08:30PM (#12294651)
> When your solution to an incredibly minor and easily-solvable problem

What solution is that which he didn't mention? He mentioned AAC, custom formats, just do it and ignore the share link issues (LOVE the share links).

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Re:Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS do... by archagon on Monday August 15, 2016 @09:16PM (#12294837)
I'm referring to the article. I presume that if Apple ends up supporting MLLT ID3 tags natively based on Marco's request, he'll feel free to switch his podcast to VBR without guilt. (Even though this will cause problems for all his non-iOS11 listeners.)
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