I'm working on a server application which will hand out audio streams. These audio streams are being consumed in web browsers, specifically through the <audio> element.
Now, let's say the server application offers MP3 streams. If these MP3 streams are VBR (variable bitrate), is there any use for the server application to support byte-range requests at all?
The server application will respond with a Content-Length header, but I can't see how the client (browser) will be capable of letting the user seek to any given position in the stream as we're dealing with variable bitrate.
Am I missing something?