How does music play affect DX battery?

[Droid_Badger]

Using the extended BH6 battery, too.

My friend's iPhone barely loses any battery when playing music. It's almost a non-issue. Curious if this is the same for my Droid X? Just downloaded Google Music and I am so, so pumped to have my music library at my disposal, so I expect to be using the DX for music now.

 

[cracks]

Playing music barely affects your battery... but, since you have the extended battery music shouldn't even be the slightest issue

 

[RichSz]

It affects battery life slightly but you probably won't notice. After listening to tunes throughout the day, I think I've seen maybe a 4% hit as reported by the battery manager. I don't consider that significant.

 

[HanoverPhist]

depends on streaming or local music as well. when i stream pandora for a few hours the battery seems to take a decent hit. when im playing the library i keep on my phone, i can listen to it for 7 hours and barely dent the battery. of course thats with the screen off. the thing that bugs me is playing plants vs zombies or ninjump for 20 minutes will take 1/4 of my battery.

 

[apavolka]

I forgot to charge my X one night and went to school, turned on airplane mode and listened to 5 hours of music non stop on 15% battery. however it did die when i went to make a phone call. Now if you are streaming music, it uses about the same battery that browsing basic web pages does (in my experience).