Why don’t podcasts use VBR MP3s? Because iOS and macOS don’t accurately seek them
If you want more context to this, there&#x27;s a lot more in the most recent ATP podcast (with timestamp link included in the article).<p>Which kind of highlights a problem that I think is only going to grow over time - the general greatness of podcasts has one big black spot in that they&#x27;re tough to share. I&#x27;ve seen so many discussions recently where there was awesome additional context or info in a recent podcast, but it was tough to share it with people in a format where they&#x27;d actually consume it. Whereas, if it had been in a blog, sharing would&#x27;ve been easy. Marco has the right idea with these timestamp links, but even that isn&#x27;t perfect. A lot of people, especially technical people, won&#x27;t even click on a non-text source, for better or worse.<p>It&#x27;s a shame that a lot of good information is becoming harder to share due to this. It&#x27;s not even that podcasts are &quot;locked down&quot; or behind a paywall or anything, it&#x27;s just that people often don&#x27;t have the time or motivation to listen to them. I don&#x27;t have a great solution to this; some kind of automatic transcription maybe?