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Re:Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS do... by scarface74 on Monday August 15, 2016 @05:06PM (#12293449)
What nonsense? He explicitly said in the episode that he studied some options and they were all bad ideas. He made a few million from the sale of Tumblr to Yahoo, has FU money in the bank and he is just scratching an itch and exploring his hobby. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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Re:Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS do... by archagon on Monday August 15, 2016 @05:17PM (#12293528)
The nonsense is that this is a solution looking for a problem. It's scratching an itch by trying to move a mountain. I am certain that nobody in the history of the podcast has ever complained about the sound quality of the theme song or audio clips, especially after they switched over to 96kbps. Whereas there is no doubt that any technical solution — especially any of the ones proposed, including switching to VBR — would inconvenience a whole lot of people.

(By all means, Marco should continue working in this direction if it interests him. If Apple ends up adding those ID3 tags to their MP3 decoder, it will have a net positive impact on the world. I just think it's a rather foolish endeavor.)

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Re:Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS do... by danseely on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @09:12AM (#12297221)
>I am certain that nobody in the history of the podcast has ever complained about the sound quality of the theme song or audio clips, especially after they switched over to 96kbps.

Source?

>Whereas there is no doubt that any technical solution — especially any of the ones proposed, including switching to VBR — would inconvenience a whole lot of people.

It sounded to me like the entire point of his approach is to find a technical solution without inconveniencing people.

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