The lifespan of a battery inside a portable unit, e.g. an MP3 player, is of course very important and the iPod family has been questioned many times because of its batteries. Perhaps the most because the battery is integrated into the player and can not be changed when it breaks, which means a tragic end to an otherwise perfectly fine player. However, there are some things you can do to ensure the battery offers maximal capacity and at the same time increase the lifespan. At Futurelooks they’ve published an article containing a lot of interesting tricks on how to get you iPod battery to perform as good as possible; all from using songs of normal length to converting all your music to AAC.
