Battery Duration for the A-Series Walkman

[Guest Stuge]

It interesting to note the battery life while using different Bit rates in Atrac .

For A-SERIES.

If anyone knows about battery duration while using Atrac 64,128,132,160,192,256,320 kpbs for both A-SERIES models{600series & A3000/1000}& Please tell for mp3 as well

*Correction made for the 600 series

[sylikc]

It interesting to note the battery life while using different Bit rates in Atrac .

For A-SERIES.

If anyone knows about battery duration while using Mp3 in 600 series pl tell us.

Noisy_minidisc_demo2_MZ_NHF800.mp3

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Whoah. 90 hours for 48kbps on A608. That's killer.

I didn't know that the A-line all had different batteries... it's not all rated at 50 hours? I thought they all had the same battery but diff flash sizes... (I have no product spec sheets to look at cuz it's not released in English yet)

[nw_lover]

battery life is for all a600 max. 50h.

90h means only you can store 90h music with 48kbps

some info for nw-a1000

[sylikc]

battery life is for all a600 max. 50h.

90h means only you can store 90h music with 48kbps

some info for nw-a1000

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Oh ... stupid me, I read the data wrong. Ok, now it makes sense!

[Ascariss]

Sadly in real life, things are different.

I doubt many people here will listen to mp3s at 128 unless the like the underwaterish sound. So I will assume most people will go with 192 or higher.

I listen to 192, 200vbr, some 320s, so a mix of most over 192. I can safely tell you that so far I have gotten on average these last 3 days for the A1000, 4-5 hours. Granted the battery doesn't die, but it does get to 1/4 full, but even I hit 1/4 full, I was still able to listen for a good 2 hours and 1/4 still remained. My guess is that 8-10 hours with 15sec, is a good estimate for 192 kbps. I will do a test this weekend to try to confirm this.

[Darth_fool]

now that i have finally managed to actaually get some music onto an a-3000 i'll try and test out the battery before i wrap the damn thing up ( only bloody christmas present i've ever bought that i've spent more time trying to get working than deciding what to buy )

[Guest Stuge]

Wait everybody~~~~ Sony has confused me as well about battery duration for 600series see Sony -europe site

Sony Support NW-A608

Click on "Battery"

[Beethovenian]

It doesn't make any sense. Those must be the capacity of the players. It's impossible to have such a big drop in battery life just for going from 48 to 320kbps.

[nw_lover]

and today the spec from sony for the nw-a6xx series

[Guest Stuge]

and today the spec from sony for the nw-a6xx series

They(Sony){Sony-digitalink}have posted "number of hours of music can be imported" under battery section instead of "Battery life while using player with different atrac bit rates"

Edited December 3, 2005 by Stuge

[eu9ene]

Sadly in real life, things are different.

I doubt many people here will listen to mp3s at 128 unless the like the underwaterish sound. So I will assume most people will go with 192 or higher.

I listen to 192, 200vbr, some 320s, so a mix of most over 192. I can safely tell you that so far I have gotten on average these last 3 days for the A1000, 4-5 hours. Granted the battery doesn't die, but it does get to 1/4 full, but even I hit 1/4 full, I was still able to listen for a good 2 hours and 1/4 still remained. My guess is that 8-10 hours with 15sec, is a good estimate for 192 kbps. I will do a test this weekend to try to confirm this.

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Ascariss -

Wondering if you've done that battery test on your A1000. I think I saw you mention on another thread that you were hoping that the battery life would fill out a bit after some use. A friend visiting from Vancouver is bringing me my A1000 and I can't wait to get my hands on it - but worried a bit about battery life. If 8-10 hours is really all you're getting (like you I have mostly 192 kbps+ mp3s), I might want to trade up to the 3000 - speaking of which, what your battery experiences with that model as well? Thanks -

[Ascariss]

Welcome eu9ene, the reason I was getting such low battery life was due to the fact that it was still new. I did a battery test almost 2 weeks ago on the A1000 and you can find the info here:

http://www.atraclife.com/index.php?showtopic=511&st=20

I haven't done any testing on the A3000 per se, but from regular use at home, it has outlasted the A1000 initially. But I did just get it last week tuesday, so I haven't had much time to test the battery on it fully.

I only use high bitrate mp3s, since I don't want to change my entire library to atrac.

[eu9ene]

Thanks for pointing me to your battery test post. Well, my friend arrives tonight, and I'm looking forward to seeing him... and my A1000!