8GB DAP - How many full cd's in FLAC

[oak3x]

Ok, now the next question... With a 8GB DAP (iAudio 7), how many full CD's can be stored via FLAC?

 

[judas391]

depends on the amount of tracks and their length. my average is about 15 cds, each averaging 13-14 tracks, 4:00 in my 10GB gigabeat

 

[zip22]

you should be able to fit around 306 4:00 songs.
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/ipod/calculator/
(FLAC and Apple Lossless have very similar compression ratios)

 

[1M1]

I've gotten 12-16 flac albums on my Iaudio 7.

Usually juggling to get a last album on.

 

[Malakei]

apples lossless is much bigger in alot of cases, should be able to fit somewhere between 10-15 good quality cds on the iaudio7. keep in mind the 16 gb version should be available shortly which could always lead to upgradeitis teehee.

 

[zip22]

according to hydrogenaudio, alac is actually a bit smaller on the average.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index....mparison_Table

 

[DominicKarma]

Yep, I found that averaging out my Flac collection (ex HDD) and my Apple Lossless collection (iMac) are roughly the same size.

Both have the exact same music:

FLAC: 100.47gb (mostly 1.13/1.14)
ALAC: 101.12gb

 

[zip22]

I did a test with a few albums a while ago and came to about the same conclusion. flac level 5 was barely smaller than alac on 2 of the 3 albums. on the third, alac was smaller.

 

[mkozlows]

Quote:

Originally Posted by oak3x /img/forum/go_quote.gif Ok, now the next question... With a 8GB DAP (iAudio 7), how many full CD's can be stored via FLAC?

Figure 3 CDs per GB on average (which is empirically true for me, and makes logical sense: 680MB on a CD, compressed around half, is like 340MB), so 24 CDs or thereabouts.

 

[lumanogin]

^ Yea I average about 24 -25 cd's on my Iaudio7, encoded in flac. When I had my 8GB nano i got 22..23 with ALAC, they're a little bigger

 

[locality]

How long are your albums?
8gb i7 should hold about 20hrs of FLAC encoded music.

Do you only get 7.7gb usable for music on the i7?

 

[1M1]

So, with getting 20 full albums on the Iaudio 7, I am wondering how you have your files.

I ask, as today, mine is full (37 mb left) with only 14 albums.

Does using sub-folders affect storage, for example.

I have removed all other, non-music files, BTW.