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Re:Spotify Plans to Take on Netflix and HBO with Streaming V... by SoftwareMaven on Monday March 25, 2013 @11:27AM (#5437487)
It's OK. It drains battery like mad and doesn't stream worth crap (I get maybe one song in five to play). But other than the battery issue, offline mode works reasonably well.
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Re:Spotify Plans to Take on Netflix and HBO with Streaming V... by iddqd on Monday March 25, 2013 @12:36PM (#5437934)
My theory about the battery usage is that Spotify uses Vorbis for encoding their files, and iDevices lack a hardware decoder for that.
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