Andreas (82MHz)New blog post:
Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?
http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/03/can-i-hear-a-difference-between-mp3s-and-uncompressed-audio/
Timo TijhofTIL that Mobile Safari on latest iOS 26 can't play WAV :/
(And given other browsers on iOS are required by Apple to simply embed and wrap the same WebKit/Safari web view, this applies to all browsers on iOS.)
@krinkle I have no words for that. Why would Apple remove this?
@82mhz I can't reproduce this on other iPhone devices.
I suspect it has to do with enabling the Lockdown Mode feature. For some reason Apple trusts its MP3 decoders but not its WAV decoders, when this security setting is enabled.
Still strange and questionable, but a lot less strange than not supporting it by default!