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that 30hrs is with sony's atrac format. normal mp3s should be about 1/2 that, maybe a little more. id say 15hrs is pretty normal if youre skipping tracks, ect.
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You're right, its no where near 30 hrs. I own an HD5 and I think I'm getting around 12-15 hrs. Most of my songs are above 192kbps mp3s and I use the menu very often. Nontheless, it definitely lasts much longer than the iPod. I only need to charge my hd5 once a week (sometimes once two weeks) under normal usage.
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idk guys... i can get around 20 hours with mp3, eve VBR up to 320 kbps sometimes. i do know that i did about 18 hours of bus traveling last month and never recharged my nw-hd3. there was about a week in between each 6 hour segment of the bus trips as well.
ive also got the new sony ericsson w600i phone which is supposed to have something like 15 days standby, and 9 hours talk. listening to music on the phone drains it the fastest but if you dont listen to any music the battery seems to last forever.
sony is the best when it comes to battery life in my experience.
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Just to recap what everyone else has said (and get my post count up!), battery life tests are always done under ideal conditions. If you use 48kbps files rather than 96kpbs, the player can buffer twice as much music at a time, and hence the hard drive doesn't need to spin up nearly as often. Which results in longer battery life.
Also, they'll just leave it on continuous play, rather than skipping or rewinding tracks, which can also involve the hard drive spinning up.
IIRC, ogg takes up a lot more battery life, as the codec uses a lot more processing power to convert to sound (or something - it uses floating point algorithms).
For what it's worth, I had an HD3 and was very impressed with the battery life - I'd top up the charge about once a fortnight, which would usually mean about 12 hours. The battery generally wouldn't be empty at that point. On my HD5H, however, skipping through tracks takes quite a lot of battery life...
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Originally Posted by patrox89
sony is the best when it comes to battery life in my experience.
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I don't think so. I remember when I had my iAudio G3 it had a 30+ hour battery life for mp3 files.
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