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If someone wants to know what music I listen to... they could just ask. Or point a directional microphone at the window from a distance (technology that has existed for almost a century now, and modern systems can likely work from miles away).
Either would be a lot easier than exploiting a zero day side channel attack which would surely be detected and closed.
Also, it can take years for a music track to go from an idea in the artist's head to being available for download by a consumer. If it takes a week to compress the file... that's no biggie at all. Only the decompression side needs to be power efficient.