Was just talking about the Zune the other day. I really with Microsoft would release a new one or a phone or something. I’d love to just have a dedicated music player when traveling so I don’t use up my phones battery.
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.
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.
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.
