[Flac] FLAC: general question

[Rippit the Ogg Frog]

Perhaps a more important question is how much electricity is required to 
decode FLAC, and how much heat is generated - for embedded CPUs of course.

FLAC might not become popular for portable players if it shortens their 
battery life significantly.

While there is the problem that .flacs take up more Flash drive space 
than lossily compressed tracks, portable players with larger capacities 
are more widely available now, and cheaper than they used to be, so I 
expect the use of flac on portable players to become more widespread.

Best,

Mike Crawford
aka Rippit the Ogg Frog
rippit at oggfrog.com
http://www.oggfrog.com/