Digitising your music collection

[kagenaki koe]

Originally Posted by Tiger

thanks, and do u get a choice when u encode a cd as to what MB it will be stored at?

in itunes, yes (well not the exact mb part). just to give you an idea of file sizes:

a 4 minute song is roughly 4 mb when encoded at about 128-192 kbps. you'll be looking at double that size if it's encoded at 256-320 kbps. a lossless or flac version of a 4 minute song is 40 mb or so.

an hour long cd will be about 50-60 mb at 128-192 kbps. you can copy the cd as a wav or uncompressed file (those are still playable on itunes/ipods...flac and ogg files won't) but then that hour long cd will take up 500-600 mb.

so 400 cds + whatever loads of mp3s you have, most of that should be able to fit in a 160 GB player if you encode at 320kbps or lower. but if you're planning on having your entire collection as a lossless or uncompressed audio files, then that stuff won't fit a 160 GB player.