Ripsilver Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 What kind of length battery life should I realistically expect with my NW-A3000? I know 35 hours is quoted but what's realistic?Haven't tested mine from full to discharged but I would guess I'm getting ~15-20 hrs max... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 peterjf Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 I haven't got the A3000, only an HD-1 and HD-5H, but I hope this helps.If the A3000 is anything like the HD1/5, the maximun battery life is easily achievable if you use the ATRAC format, keep the backlight switched off and avoid moving from track to track. (Both the HD-1 and HD-5 cache about 25 minutes of music at a time to avoid having to keep activating the hard drive.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Stuge Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Ripsilver,Battery Life depends upon many factors but at the same it also depends upon which format you are using & in which bit rate for eg If you use mp3 format you will get less battery life & More battery life in Atrac format but if you have your music in Mp3 format then i will not advise you to convert it to Atrac format as conversion from Atrac to mp3 is very difficult .For Cd`s it is better to convert them into Atrac .Higher the bit rate of the file more battery will be consumed . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ripsilver Posted February 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Most of the tracks have been burned from CD to 128kbps ATRAC but there are a fair few mp3s on it as well. I tend to have 'Shuffle All' selected and have to admit to skipping tracks quite often depending on what type of music I'm in the mood for, so I guess that isn't helping the battery life from what you say Pete!Cheers guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Zombie1000 Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 I have over 1500 tracks on my NWA-3000 all in 320kpbs MP3 and recently my comp went down for a few days and i was using line out mode for several hours at a time and pretty much using it non stop till I got my comp back up and plugged it back into the USB to charge and it still hadn't run out of battery. That was with the display set to auto off after 15secs and playing mostly my fav 100 on shuffle with little screen use. Obviously you will never be able to achieve the players quoted 35hours but lets face it this player does have pretty good battery life compared certain other devices available today so I wouldn't worry too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 zachtan Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 my A1000 only can play around 10 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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What kind of length battery life should I realistically expect with my NW-A3000? I know 35 hours is quoted but what's realistic?
Haven't tested mine from full to discharged but I would guess I'm getting ~15-20 hrs max...
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