From: David McIntyre <plugh_at_mudbarn.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:39:15 -0700

If I'm going for max battery life, the peakmeter, progress bar, and elapsed
time could all be sacrificed.
The area of most concern would be the battery indicator. Did you intend to
eliminate that? The numeric display would certainly require more frequent
updates than the bar graph, but I could imagine certain points in the discharge
cycle where it would update multiple times in a short time frame. It's not
going to be a terrible drain on the battery, but defeats the purpose of
eliminating or reducing the frequency of battery-expensive screen updates.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:45:05PM -0400, TP Diffenbach wrote:
> Quoting David McIntyre <plugh_at_mudbarn.com>:
>
> > While I'm just driving or on the train and have selected my playlist, I could
> > just F1 and let it go. I may be able to eek another hour of battery life out
> > of
> > it.
> > Or I could customize a wps layout that didn't show any info big enough to
> > scroll, so the only time updates would be performed would be between songs.
> > Since this happens every 5 minutes or so (sometimes longer with my listening
> > habits), I could have volume adjustment and track skipping available to me.
>
>
> Yes, that's correct.
>
> Not that this also means your wps cab't in include the peakmeter, progress bar, or elapsed time (and yes, mine includes all three).
>
> --
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Received on 2003-07-30