[kevingadd]

The huge set of deficiencies in this API were communicated to the designers from the very beginning, and unfortunately most of them went unresolved for a long time (or indefinitely). It's a real bummer.

For a while there was a huge footgun that made it easy to synchronously decode entire mp3 files on the ui thread by accident. Oops (:

Even better, for a while there was no straightforward way to pause playback of a buffer. It took a while for the spec people to come around on that one, because they insisted it wasn't necessary.