• Carnelian@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    It’s fairly well optimized for audio. Waveforms are usually continuous and relatively repetitive. The other really important aspect is how easily it can be decoded, so that it remains a usable audio file on potentially underpowered equipment.

    Although I wonder if there exist some cases where other formats might do a better job