I mean, idk why I didn’t think of it, but I had a wireless headphone and I used it continueously for like 3-5 hours and battery barely drained.

But headphones are not very portable, I mean there is no wire to mess with, but still, its not exactly easy to carry if you are, for example, commuting. So I also got some wireless earbuds, but these only last like 1 hour maybe 2 with continuous use. Kinda annoying since with headphones, you can (some, at least) plug in the battery and charge it while using it, and its essentially temporarily a wired headphone (at least until you get enough charge to disconnect it again), but earbuds can’t do that.

This is kinda of a mildly infuriating post, but I don’t really want the negative energy, like its not the technology’s fault, I just forgot that you can’t really fit a big battery inside a tiny earbud lol. (I forgot physics existed)

So yea, every hour or so, I have to put it back in the charging case. Annoying…

I think I now understand why people really wanted the headphone jack back (I mean I still don’t like wires dangling around, but yea I get it, you don’t have to worry about the battery running out, its tradeoffs vs different tradeoffs).

  • oeightsix@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    Which earbuds did you get?

    Early true wireless earbuds (circa 2017) had rubbish battery life + connection issues, they’ve improved massively in recent years with new chipsets.

    Unless yours are old or really cheap, they should last for 6-10hrs of music playback per charge assuming they don’t have active noise cancellation.

    True wireless buds are a pretty mature product now, its nine years since the first gen AirPods came out. You can even get ultra-cheap ones that don’t suck if you know what to look out for.

    I miss headphone jacks too. Thankfully USB dongle DACs also got really good.

      • oeightsix@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Sounds like something’s wrong.

        Liberty 4 should be capable of 7hrs playback per charge with ANC on, or 5hrs talk time.

        If you’re only getting 2hrs music playback and firmware is up to date, factory reset first and if no joy after that, RMA.

        • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.worksOP
          1·
          5 days ago

          Is updating really an issue? Like I kinda just didn’t feel like giving the app internet permissions.

          Maybe I should test the usage time again, then do an update, see if theres any difference.

          • oeightsix@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            It’s worth updating headphone firmware, short of a couple issues with Bose a few years back I’ve very rarely seen an OTA make an audio product worse.

            Anker/Soundcore is a particularly interesting one in that regard because the high-bandwidth LDAC codec is gated behind a small OTA update for all Soundcore products with LDAC support. So you need to install an update to use a feature advertised on the box.

            My theory is, Anker negotiated with Sony to only pay full LDAC licensing fees for products LDAC is actually enabled on, and in doing so avoided paying the full whack for their iOS userbase who can’t use LDAC at all.

            Even if you install the app, configure the controls, OTA update, enable LDAC or multipoint or etc. you can then uninstall the app once you have the configuration you like. Or disable network access again.

            You’re right to be cautious of gadget apps, they’re data sponges. Samsung holds the title for worst - if you dare to use Galaxy Buds on another brand of Android smartphone, you need to give the companion app access to read your notifications before you can update the firmware.