Pandora Enform app
10-22-13, 08:20 AM
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OK, I've run some tests for those who are interested in the data usage of Pandora.
It seems to use between 35-38 MB per hour - so round it up to 40MB to be safe, that would be 1200MB - roughly 1.2 GB - if you stream for 1 hour per day for 30 days. As always, YMMV.
I have my Pandora account set to "High quality", but I'm not sure if that affects anything when streaming via Enform.
Curiously, on my Android phone data usage, the data is consumed by the Enform app - there's only a minuscule amount, about 1-2 kb, used by the Pandora app itself (which all shows under "background"). I've checked, and if I stop streaming and switch to the radio or something, the Enform app appears to go completely to sleep, i.e., there doesn't seem to be some stub that keeps running in the background, polling the network periodically and consuming data.
It would be interesting to just run the Pandora app on the phone and stream it to the system via Bluetooth, to see how the data rates (and sound quality) compare, but I haven't tried that yet. Also don't know what sort of track info, if any, comes across. I'll post again when I get around to trying it, and maybe changing the "Quality" setting on Pandora to see if that affects the usage.
- Mark
It seems to use between 35-38 MB per hour - so round it up to 40MB to be safe, that would be 1200MB - roughly 1.2 GB - if you stream for 1 hour per day for 30 days. As always, YMMV.
I have my Pandora account set to "High quality", but I'm not sure if that affects anything when streaming via Enform.
Curiously, on my Android phone data usage, the data is consumed by the Enform app - there's only a minuscule amount, about 1-2 kb, used by the Pandora app itself (which all shows under "background"). I've checked, and if I stop streaming and switch to the radio or something, the Enform app appears to go completely to sleep, i.e., there doesn't seem to be some stub that keeps running in the background, polling the network periodically and consuming data.
It would be interesting to just run the Pandora app on the phone and stream it to the system via Bluetooth, to see how the data rates (and sound quality) compare, but I haven't tried that yet. Also don't know what sort of track info, if any, comes across. I'll post again when I get around to trying it, and maybe changing the "Quality" setting on Pandora to see if that affects the usage.
- Mark
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