Board 8 > What's a good size mp3 player to get?

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I get too many CD's piling up in my car and want to get an iPod. I might as well put my whole library on it, which isn't all that big now but I plan to expand. Would 32GB be enough, you think?

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I have 8 gig and I'm only halfway there.. alright I only own like 500 songs but still !

32 gig could get you to like 2000 songs easy.

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Isn't the general rule 1GB = 500 songs? I used to have a 4GB iPod nano and I'm pretty sure it had like 2000 songs on it.

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depends on how much music you have, semi-obviously. I have a 30 GB and I've got it not even halfway full despite the fact that I have bags full of cds at my house.

so i'd guess 32 is fine for you.

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Ayuyu posted...
I have 8 gig and I'm only halfway there.. alright I only own like 500 songs but still !

32 gig could get you to like 2000 songs easy.

So if an average album is about 12 songs that's 167 albums....probably more than enough for me.

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CrimsonOcean posted...
Isn't the general rule 1GB = 500 songs? I used to have a 4GB iPod nano and I'm pretty sure it had like 2000 songs on it.

No way, my average song is 7mb, 500x7mb = 3.5k mb -> 3.5 gig.

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according to my zune it has 1909 songs that take up 9.63 GBs

for what it's worth.

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Oh. Do you guys have like, really long songs or something? I mean, the average song is between 2 and 4 minutes. But I know some people with video game music or classical music or whatever have super long songs. Also I probably don't know what I'm talking about.

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My average song is 4 minutes long, not a single video game song, nor instrumental song.

Also when I extract songs from my CDs I try to get the best quality possible.

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Theon_Greyjoy posted...
I get too many CD's piling up in my car and want to get an iPod. I might as well put my whole library on it, which isn't all that big now but I plan to expand. Would 32GB be enough, you think?

If you store them as MP3s already, just rightclick->properties on the folder where you store them. Otherwise just start encoding them now

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Quality of the audio files can make a huge difference on size.

But basically what neon said - just go ahead and rip your CDs and then check their size on your computer, and see what size you need.

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I have 4511 songs with the amount of memory they take up being 28.9gb.

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I have 3434 songs that total 8.57GB, but that might be a little lower than normal because many years ago when I ripped most of my CDs, I did it at 96kbps so I could fit more songs on the 64MB player I had at the time. The reduced sound quality also made everything sound more like how I was used to hearing it: on endlessly redubbed blank tapes.

Also most of the songs I have are shorter, I think the average length is under 3 minutes.

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My 160GB iPod has never let me down. I keep almost my entire music library on it.

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My iPhone can barely hold a quarter of my music and it sucks. I have almost 9,000 songs, which is a little over 61 gigs. I've been waiting for the i5 for so long. Gotta upgrade the storage space

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My 4 Gig can hold just under 900 songs. Was enough for me at the time but I need a space for more like 1200-1500 now

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