One downside to MP3s is that it's not possible (or maybe not *always* possible, ...

		ataylor32 on May 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story One downside to MP3s is that it's not possible (or maybe not always possible, or not easily possible) to prevent silence from being added to the beginning and/or end of the audio. This complicates things like gapless playback or loops. It also complicates using audio where a high level of precision is required (e.g. "I want this widget to appear exactly half a second into this audio").

Gapless playback is a thing with MP3s, but it seems to involve specific support for the encoder. I find this quite sad.