[Vorbis] Question about Ogg files Structure

[Franck Charlemagne]

Hi,

I bought an iRiver HP-120 which can read ogg files (via a hard drive).
Many people experiment that reading ogg file decrease the baterry charge
more quickly than with mp3 at the same bitrate.

The only raisonnable reason of that mysterious thing is that reading ogg
file is not sequential onto hard drive, and the hard drive head must
move more than for reading an mp3 at the same quality, and that consume
more energy.


Right ?

PS : for the benchmark, see the graph onto
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