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Why do you willfully ignore the central point here, that hardware decoders are worthwhile in terms of energy-efficiency, and attack every other (i.e. irrelevant) detail in sight?
Anyway, I will answer the question of 33 hours. It has nothing to do with music, and everything to do with video and wireless. Regardless, 33 hours isn't a
bad thing, is it? It's not underpowered either; it would also eat most other devices in software decoding since ARM11 was the high watermark in Android devices until recently. Somehow you construe the hardware decoder as a misfeature. Great job.
You're fired.