One feature of this format which made me choose it for a project I worked on is self-synchronization -- if your data is truncated or corrupted in some way, you

One feature of this format which made me choose it for a project I worked on is self-synchronization -- if your data is truncated or corrupted in some way, you can recover by stepping forward until the start of the next frame. And since frame lengths are limited to a small number, there's no worry of one corrupt byte causing the parser to skip the rest of a long file.