The Truth About DRM and Your MP3 Player’s Battery Life

[[Chris]]

Here’s a good reason why Digital Rights Management (DRM) is poop. In CNET’s recent tests, it has shown that DRM can cause up to 25% loss of battery life. When playing only non-DRM MP3s on the Creative Zen Vision:M, the result was an impressive 16-hours of playback. However, when playing DRM’ed WMA exclusively, the playback time drops to a mere 12-hours. A loss of 4-hours of battery life!

And this is definitely not affecting only the PlaysForSure on the Creative player. Tests on Apple’s iPod with its FairPlay DRM has shown underperformances as well, by 8%.

In the long run, what this results in is a much shorter lifespan of your player’s battery.

[cocaine]

Did you just copy and paste this from a site?

[Adam$]

I think he did.

[Php]

I Agree

[RedStratocas]

Eh, as long as you dont have a problem

All MP3 players, including Ipods for those who think they are seperate, only have a life of about 2 years. You have to buy a new one after that, and they dont really want to fix it because they think most people would want a more recent one by then anyway.

[[Chris]]

well i dod copy it because its news and it would take me ages to type it out in my own words

[Adam$]

Well at least you admitted it.