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description: "Discussion on \"I Tried to Glue MP3s Together and FFmpeg Humbled Me\". Why concatenating MP3 files causes glitches, how FFmpeg's decode → encode pipeline actually works, and what codecs and containers really are."
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# [I Tried to Glue MP3s Together and FFmpeg Humbled Me](https://adi-read-write.hashnode.dev/i-tried-to-glue-mp3s-together-and-ffmpeg-humbled-me?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Why concatenating MP3 files causes glitches, how FFmpeg's decode → encode pipeline actually works, and what codecs and containers really are.

Sep 13 · 7 min read · adi-read-write.hashnode.dev  
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