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   Marco Arment (marcoarment@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 12:13:43 JST Marco Arment

   It was still MP3, but I tried VBR encoding.

   In 2016, I wrote: https://marco.org/2016/08/15/vbr-mp3-plea

   ATP: https://atp.fm/182

   It worked! The following year's Apple OSes (iOS 11+) implemented support for all three VBR-seek-table standards — MLLT, VBRI, and Xing/LAME-tag.

   ATP: https://atp.fm/228

   But when I later tried releasing ATP in VBR with all three tags, we got so many problem reports from Android users that I went back to CBR after one episode:

   https://atp.fm/244
   https://ioc.exchange/@whophd/113717975279161741