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Old 27th Jul 2006, 3:47 am
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As may few of you know but there is a potential drawback regarding converting mp3 files to wma.
battery life!
apparently running wma files on yer players, may cause the mp3/4 player's cpu to work harder (alas more cpu cycles/sec) so you might actally wind up shortening the battery life up to 15-20% in some cases. meaning you will have to recharge the batteries more often.
so by saving memory space actually could cost you more power.
the reason for this is lying in the codec itself (as wma is) apparently not as efficient decoding as mp3 and not readily being supported by players. no hardware decoder on the atj for example for wma. using emulation built into the actual bin file.
for flamers--> this is not my idea! it's actually tests were done to prove this since micro$haft did not really care about the efficiency much.
as I've read it , thats the reason why the newer windows mediaplayers with the updated libraries having problem running properly on older machines.
now you can go ahead and call me anything, but don't call me late for dinner :P lol
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Old 27th Jul 2006, 1:22 pm
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So, has anyone in the "real world" actually had a problem with this on their chiPod? I haven't. Seems like a non-issue to me. Saving 40-50% space by using proprietary WMA instead of proprietary MP3 seems worth a bit of theoretical battery power difference.
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Old 27th Jul 2006, 2:23 pm
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havent noticed a drawback of converting, it does save me a lot of space just like Vegas215 and I havent noticed a difference in battery life.
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