http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/ Engadget Comments for Is DRM sucking the life out of your MP3 player? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/They needed to control these tests correctly. AAC Fairplay vs. AAC (Same bitrate), and WMA without DRM vs WMA with DRM (Same bitrate).

The tests are worthless as they stand, as they're comparing different codecs.]]>Mar 16th 2006 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/
In fact, battery inflation has always been an issue with Apple. In comparison, Rio Audio used to underestimate its battery longevity on packaging and users were often pleasantly surprised to find the batteries going strong hours after the packaging noted.

Had to get that in there. ;)]]>Mar 16th 2006 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/
you comparing players with completely different characteristics is much more irrelevant than cnet comparing mp3 to wma-drm. (comparing flash players and players with oled screens to color lcds?) and (in case you come out of bubble) the ipod video's battery is 450mah and it got 14.7 hours in cnets test. the nw-hd5 has a 880mah battery and it got 28 hours. id say that pretty good for efficiency considering the ipod's color lcd, wouldn't you? in fact, its very apparent you have no actual information regarding the effiency of the sigmatel chip or any others for that matter.]]>Mar 16th 2006 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/
Oh, and nice job, posting as "Steve Jobs" when making an anti-Apple comment. I'm sure your comment made a lot of Mac fanatics think to themselves, "maybe I'm wrong! Maybe Apple products *do* suck, because this anonymous troll on an Engadget comment thread said so!"

If convincing people that iPods suck is your mission in life, then you seriously need to reconsider what makes one's life worthwhile.]]>Mar 16th 2006 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/
DRM: there is some battery hit mostly due to hard disk seeking to find a license to play a song. This will get better over time as companies learn tricks to optimize this process.

OGG: most inefficient CODEC to date on portable players. This will also get better over time as firmware developers get used to it...it's already come a long way and has quite a ways to go.

DRM in general: My policy is no DRM for purchased music, but DRM is ok for "rented" subscription music. I listen to unlimited songs on Napster then buy the CDs I like at a store and rip them. It's the ultimate try-before-you-buy system and I encourage others to try the same policy. Subscription+DRM really isn't all that evil.]]>Mar 16th 2006 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/
1) Never under-estimate the power of nerds and their pointless banter, missing the point entirely.
2) So, get cracking! I'm waiting!]]>Mar 16th 2006 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 16th 2006 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://spaces.msn.com/umeshunni/blog/cns!E6F4034858BD6D88!189.entry?_c=BlogPart). Now I know it's also about sucking my batteries dry :-)]]>Mar 17th 2006 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 17th 2006 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/Mar 17th 2006 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/
We have no idea if the battery life difference is due to the need to decrypt the track, or if it's due to differences in the capabilities and performance of the codecs because of how the test was run.

The ONLY way to know if the extra battery consumption is due to the need to decrypt tracks, is to compare the same codecs with and without DRM at the same bitrates.

The article comes to the wrong conclusion, MP3 will give you better battery life than the DRM encumbered tracks, that is pretty much indisputable, but we don't know why.]]>Mar 17th 2006 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/

lol @ Saif's "If convincing people that iPods suck is your mission in life, then you seriously need to reconsider what makes one's life worthwhile." yet he typed a 4+ line reply to Steve Jobs to prove an iPod's worth.]]>Mar 17th 2006 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/It is generally accepted that WMA and AAC at the same bitrate are about the same quality but MP3 requires higher bitrates to compare. So the truly interesting thing would be to see:

128 bit WMA (Plays for sure and unprotected)
128 bit AAC (Fairplay and unprotected)
160 bit MP3 (unprotected)

This would tell me what I should encode my music in to get max battery life at the same audio quality. My guess is that the higher bitrate required of MP3 will make is worse than Fairplay AAC and about the same as WMA.]]>Mar 21st 2006 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/is-drm-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-mp3-player/15 RUE DU GRAND MARCHE
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