From: Hans Derycke (hans_at_derycke.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 06:14:49 PDT
--- Chris Ruprecht <chris_at_ruprecht.org> wrote:
>7500 songs will NOT fit onto a 30 GB drive. I have a 30 GB FW external drive
>on my PowerBook and I currently have 2591 songs on there, using 19.04 GB.
>Taking into account that a 30 GB (1 GB = 1000^3 Bytes) formats to only 27.8
>(or so) real GB, I can only get 3784 tracks on the unit.
>Of course, if I go and re-rip all my CDs in crappy 128kbit/sec quality, I
>might get the advertised number of tracks. But then, my listeing experience
>will be so bad, that I simply will not listen to anything on there.
I have a 5GB iPod, and all my songs are ripped at the standard iTunes rate, which is 160kb/s I believe. There are 1,008 songs on my iPod, taking up 4.6GB.
Maybe your songs are unusually long.
Hans Derycke
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