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Reply #46 –
.. not only is ease/difficulty of computation reflective in CPU use (=battery use) but also bitrate/length of file. This challenges the imagination.
Think about it like this, the device must read more bits and process (decode) them. The quoted statement holds when using the same algorithm.
The second variable: The more complex the decoding algorithm is, the more processing power is needed.
With WavPack each number gives a slightly more complex method (and better compression) the -x (extra) is only in effect at encoding.