dwc Wrote: > Thx Pat, > Reading more on the topic at various forums, it doesn't look like going > all the way to lvl 8 is really going to buy much drive space over the > lower levels, and apparently lvl 8 takes "ages" longer than even lvl 5 > for example to encode. > > Secondly, the playback of lvl 8 files also takes a bit more cpu and is > known to burn batteries a bit faster on mp3 players. > > So, that being said, it looks like I'll be encoding to something less > than 8. Perhaps 5. My understanding is that playing flac and other lossless (or worse, non-compressed WAV) files is also more battery consuming than mp3, ogg, and other compressed formats. I'm not sure why that is. My guess is that it's the reading of larger files from either flash memory or from a hard drive that accounts for the increased power consumption.
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