Re: Considering a switch to FLAC for mobile listening
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2) there shouldn't be any difference for the encoding part because transcoding always happens, even if your songs are in one of supported formats
1) decoding of both of these should be cheap enough to make the difference too small to be relevant
so, overall, this probably won't save you any battery that's possible to measure - the difference, if any, is gonna be impractical to find given practical (in)accuracy of battery life measurement