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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Which uses less power
Date: 22 Oct 2024 17:41:05 GMT
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VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Bill Powell <bill@anarchists.org> wrote:
> >> Which uses less of the phone's battery power on long trips?
> >> 
> >> Playing long podcasts with the Android speaker as the output?
> >> Playing long podcasts with a Bluetooth speaker as the output instead?
> >> 
> >> Any idea?
> > 
> > Too marginal to say definitively. It might make a difference if you
> > routinely turn off BT when using the internal speaker, but most people
> > don't. 
> > 
> > The best way to save power is use airplane mode which turns off the mobile
> > radio.
> 
> But no cellular radio (for data aka Internet) means no podcast.  The OP
> isn't listening to local audio files on his phone.  He is listening to a
> podcast, and that requires Internet access which requires the cellular
> radio for data.  I suppose he could be using an app to first download a
> podcast to save to a local file on his phone, but he didn't mention how
> is is listening to the podcast: locally downloaded file, or streaming
> from Internet.

  I haven't used podcasts in a while, but when I still did, downloading
(in MP3 format) was the normal way, i.e. not streaming and no Internet
needed to play.

  Wikipedia implies that's still the case:

'Podcast'
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast>

"A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download
 over the Internet."