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by URSpider94 2834 days ago
Music playback from local storage uses a minuscule amount of battery - if you listen all day, you’re going to lose only an hour or so of standby on a modern phone.

You’d be better off spending the same money to buy a battery pack to recharge your phone when it runs low.
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dawnerd 2834 days ago
True and I have two huge battery banks but I still don’t like using my phone. Keeping my huge music library eats into my video and photo storage. And it’s not like Apple lets me stick a micro sd card in.

Maybe I should just bite the bullet and switch.

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larkeith 2834 days ago
Uses, or should use? On an Android device (S5) I've found the battery usage from music playing not-insignificant - perhaps it prevents the phone from fully entering standby, or something? At a very rough estimate, I'd say it uses 20% as much power to play music as active usage requires, though this is very much anecdata.

Either way, I'll second the recommendation to get an external battery pack - a high-quality one will give more audio playback time than a media player, with much more utility and convenience.

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izacus 2834 days ago
Most modern phones (not sure for S5 which is pretty old these days, but Nexus 5 was the first to introduce it) have a separate DSP for music playback.

The app must use Androids playback API though.

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