I like lots of music but not obsessive about it.Never had a walkman or portable cd.Do like loud music in my car but thats about it.

Am I correct in thinking you can have 10,000 songs on an i-pod? Is that correct,has anyone filled the memory or is that impossible?

Funny how latest technology does so much yet I can't get excited about it like I used too (when I could tape the top 40 countdown)

Am I correct in thinking you can have 10,000 songs on an i-pod? Is that correct,has anyone filled the memory or is that impossible?

Assuming MP3 compression to "CD quality" at a fixed bit rate, you're looking at about 1Mb for every minute of music.

So from that, you can calculate how many songs you can fit on an MP3 player...

Rob.

i have a 20gb ipod that is supposed to hold approx 5000 songs, i currently have about 2100 on it and its way over half full. they average it out at 4mins per song to get that number. i have alot of big files (comedy stuff at over an hour) on mine hence the reduced capacity. cant see me ever filling mine but i am glad i bought a bigger one than i thought i would need.

mark

Moved to a more appropriate forum

I like lots of music but not obsessive about it.Never had a walkman or portable cd.Do like loud music in my car but thats about it.

Am I correct in thinking you can have 10' date='000 songs on an i-pod? Is that correct,has anyone filled the memory or is that impossible? [/quote']

I have 6895 tracks on my iMac (that's around 500 albums), which equates to 36GB or 20 days of music... I'm pretty obsessed with my music!

So yes you can fit well over 10,000 on a 60GB ipod, can you fill one with music alone... maybe, it'd would take some doing though, assuming your tunes are legit!

Note: Majority of my tunes are ripped 192kb/sec MP3 format, which is probably higher than you need...

Chris

I've loads of albums on my 60gb ipod and all the harry potter books for the wife to listen to.

The answer to this question isn't as straight forward as it first sounds. You can download songs to your i-pod at varying bit rates from the very poor at under 100kbps to the very good called 'apple lossless'. The latter downloads songs at very high bit rates at near CD quality which is what I use as I like quality not quantity so in that respect I am a bit like you in that I like my music but not obsessively so. Currently on a 30GB machine there are approximately 1250 songs and 400 photographs, this has taken up 26GB of space. Hope this provides some useful information.