Exoplayer battery consumption for audio playback in media3-exoplayer:1.2.0

Question

to reduce battery consumption ExoPlayer introduced support for audio offload in 2.12 as an experimental feature. This function is no longer available in the media3 library for the current Exoplayer version 1.2.0. I cannot find anything about this in the documentation. Is there another way to reduce the battery consumption for audio playback?

Thanks GGK

Answer 1

It's still there:
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/exoplayer/track-selection#audioOffload

val audioOffloadPreferences =
  AudioOffloadPreferences.Builder()
      .setAudioOffloadMode(AudioOffloadPreferences.AUDIO_OFFLOAD_MODE_ENABLED)
      // Add additional options as needed
      .setIsGaplessSupportRequired(true)
      .build()
player.trackSelectionParameters =
  player.trackSelectionParameters
    .buildUpon()
    .setAudioOffloadPreferences(audioOffloadPreferences)
    .build()