Caching audio and gapless playback (future plans?)

[FulminisIctus]

From what I understand caching audio and gapless playback are both features that are not supported in RenPy, is that correct? I'd appreciate if anyone could let me know if they've maybe stumbled upon these topics or have heard PyTom mention them before, maybe as features that he might look into at a later point. I unfortunately couldn't find much.

The gapless playback question is more out of pure curiosity since the majority of devs seem to be using ogg vorbis, though I could imagine it saving people new to game development some trouble as they struggle to figure out why their mp3 files don't loop seamlessly.

The audio caching one is a bit more practical. RenPy games aren't usually memory intensive or are as dependent on short latency, but it might be good to know whether you could decompress and load audio files into memory in advance to decrease playback delay if necessary. I've also been setting up dynamic audio playback with music playing on different layers, which desynchs every now and then. Being able to load the audio files into a cache might solve that problem.