| CPU usage in percent | MP3 | Standard AAC | aacPlus (HE-AACv2) | WMA | OGG | FLAC | WMA Pro - lossless (not supported on the N95 / BB 4.5!) |
| MortPlayer 3.31 b69 (RC8.1) | 19.4 | 24 (doesn’t any more depend on GSPlayer dll’s; works on non-PE devices too) | n/a | 14.5 (doesn’t any more depend on GSPlayer dll’s) | 24 | n/a | 30% |
| HTC Audio Manager v1.02.919713 | 22 | n/a | n/a | 13 | n/a | n/a | n/t whether compliant |
| Pocket Tunes 4.1 | 19 | 27 | 29.5 | 21.3 | n/a | n/a | N/A |
| CorePlayer 1.2.5 | 10.4 | 9.5 | n/a | 11.4 | 18 | 12 | 30, with occasional max. ~45% peaks |
| WMP in 6.0 | 20.5 | 9 (on PE devices; tested on 624 MHz PXA270 HTC Universal) | n/a | 12.5 | n/a | n/a | 27, no peaks (on the HTC Universal, 24 with some temp peaks). Only supported by WM5+ |
| Resco Audio Recorder 4.01 | 9 | n/t (requires plug-in) | n/a | n/a | 23 | n/a | n/a |
| Pocket Music 5.1 | 23 | 33 | n/a | 15.5 | 22 | n/a | 30 |
| GSPlayer 2.29 | 15.5 | 24, no problems, as opposed to the aacPlus (HE-AACv2) case | (27.5%, but all the songs – not just this one – had annoying clicks and other noise – the current AAC plugin is STILL useless, as were all the past versions) | 13.5 | 18 | n/a | 29% |
| Conduits Pocket Player 3.7 | 23 | n/t (on PE devices only!) | n/a | 15.5 | 25 | 29 (plug-in add-on needed) | 30 |
| TCPMP 0.72RC1 | 11.5 | 12 | Heavily fluctuating; about 35 average | n/a | 16 | 14 (with the plug-in) | n/a |
| Kinoma Player 1.0 | 21 | 13 | 34 | 14 | n/a | 20 | n/a |