[Mbeeching]

That's insane, although I have enough content to fill my 160gb iPod several times over, in reality I don't even use half of the capacity.
I already seem to 'lose' albums as I find the interface completely unintuitive. I miss my iRiver H340 file tree

p.s. I need to find a slave to re-rip all my CDs to lossless now I have a pair of Shure SE530's - I'll keep you supplied with coffee til the job's done. Any takers?

 

[zotjen]

Whenever you hear "ten years from now" it usually means don't hold your breath. SED anyone?

 

[Chri5peed]

Lol, 500,000 songs. To make it easier say a song averages 5 minutes, so thats 2,500,000 minutes or 1,700 days. Lol.

 

[centerfold]

Your iPod probably wouldn't even last long enough to finish all your songs before it dies or you'd want another model : p

 

[Khanate]

Well you have to consider that 500000 songs usually means 3 minutes in 128kpb so in reality we would put it in lossless and end up with... 50000 songs at most? That's a lot, but it's not that crazy.

Now consider the fact that we can play video... 10-20 movies on full quality and you cut it to 30-40000 songs and so on.

The more hard drive space we have, the more ways we find to use it. I used to think my 800 mb hard drive was unfillable!!!!

Plus I'm down with longer battery life!

 

[synaesthetic]

That might actually make me use lossless.

 

[Chri5peed]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Khanate /img/forum/go_quote.gif Well you have to consider that 500000 songs usually means 3 minutes in 128kpb so in reality we would put it in lossless and end up with... 50000 songs at most? That's a lot, but it's not that crazy.

Its pretty blatant that folks with many many thousands of songs are majorly going to be deeply into listening to music.

Which means two things: 1, They're not going to settle for crappy low-bitrate stuff and 2, you're pretty ignorant to think songs average 3 minutes, I have nearly 8,000 songs, they average 6 minutes.
Radio songs are purposefully made short, don't listen to much radio music.

 

[JamesL]

More importantly, 500k songs, at about $8 per album, = somewhere around $300,000 worth of cds..

And about 1400 feet worth of linear storage space(length of 4 football fields)

 

[InfiniteZr0]

Looks like by then MP3 players will be phased out by phones with media players.

 

[dallan]

I already have 280 gigs of music without even downloading all my cds, many songs are up to 20 or 30 min. It's like pulling teeth to figure out what to put on my 160 gig ipod so i welcome all space they can provide. But like stated earlier, none is 128kps and that is what their estimate is on. Really though, how many people out here with the detailed gear settle for 128kps.

 

[Punnisher]

Quote:

Originally Posted by synaesthetic /img/forum/go_quote.gif That might actually make me use lossless.

X2

 

[Baba booey]

flac anyone?

 

[Al4x]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Punnisher /img/forum/go_quote.gif X2

x3

 

[KUNFUCHOPSTICKS]

Sucks for Apple: I just registered the TM "iPod Infinity" HAHA!