What!!! That stupid feature that gobbles up your phone storage was fudging everyone’s engagement metrics (that they misinterpreted)? That is just bonkers.
The stupidity doesn't end there, OPUS/Speex has existed since 2013 and is supported everywhere. Why do they use mp3's for a medium that is mostly speech?
Mind you I'm not saying, toss away mp3's, but they could offer the low/mid/high bandwidth option, same as youtube.
And most of the content would work just fine in mono.
Even npr’s app would cache several hundred mb of content when you started and eat up bandwidth to the point I had to stop using it. Maybe that’s been fixed but yeesh.
I regularly stream a pirate radio station and AAC 32kbps is pretty damn good.
Mind you I'm not saying, toss away mp3's, but they could offer the low/mid/high bandwidth option, same as youtube.