I’m a little bit disappointed in the battery life of my Fuze. At first I thought there might be something wrong with it, but then I found that it lasts much much longer if I’m listening to the radio rather than decoding my ogg files.
I’ve heard that ogg is more computationally intensive to decode than some other formats. So my question is this: is there a significant difference between power usage while playing ogg and power usage while playing mp3 (or other)?
All my music is currently encoded as ogg at quality 6 and 7. I choose ogg because it get a good quality/size ratio. But if mp3 has a better quality/power ratio, then maybe it is worth re-ripping my cds. So I’d be interested to hear about any observations and experiments related to this.
Yup, OGG and FLAC take more power to decode than mp3. The thing of it is, some of us have chosen quality over battery life. So Its really up to you, quality or time?
If it was just choice between quality and time, I think I’d choose quality. But the way I see it is that I’d just choose the quality/bitrate so that the music sounded the same, and then the choice would probably be between storage size and playback time. I suppose the catch is that high quality mp3s would use more energy than low quality mp3s… and even aside from all that, I have to decide whether re-ripping all my music is a better option than just recharging the fuze more frequently. After all, it’s not like the Fuze is running out of power in the middle of the day. The battery life isn’t that short. The only reason I’m thinking about any of this is that I’d rather not have to remember to charge my Fuze all the time.
