[DLP]

For me, it was when I had 22GB, and my iRiver only held 18.6GB. That is, when I had my iRiver.
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Originally Posted by jordanr Right about now, when I realized that I've only put 1200 songs on my player, and that those 1200 have consumed nearly 8.5 gigs of the available 18.5 gigs. Doing the math, that doesn't exactly add up to the 5000 song capacity that the 20g iPod claims. Granted, nothing in my library is ripped at less than ~ 256kbps AAC, and a bunch is ripped at 320kbps MP3. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to start prioritizing.

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Originally Posted by Apple 5,000 songs(1) 1. Based on using 128Kbps AAC format.

 

[radicaltothemax]

My iPod 20GB is full (or something like 400mb free....so I'll jam a bit more on)
I have 1893 songs on it.
Pssssfff....5000 songs

I almost wished I had the 60GB so I could be storing songs as ALAC...but whatcha gonna do?

 

[ILikeMusic]

Well, if you do run out of space it's lucky that you bought a Zen. Swapping out for a larger hard drive is literally a 10-minute operation for these units.

http://www.blurbdesigns.com/ZenUpgrade/

 

[Bacon]

I've got 1000 songs on my Zen Micro, and its at 4.32GB full. I'm worrying a little about the future, but I think I could go down a encoding thing

 

[ed_bollix]

20% free space is a good number. I rip to my computer and only put the stuff I want in portable form on one of my portable devices... Just my .02

 

[Jahn]

i just had to delete my entire django box set from the ipod - ripped at lossless, that space was adding up. i just kept some of the gems. no worries since i have all the CDs and can put them back on anytime. i'm aiming to do the same to my Segovia collection soon - that stuff is recorded horribly, i'm just going to keep what i can't live without.

 

[bigshot]

I keep my iPod packed to the gills... 27 gigs

I have over a terabyte of digital files, thousands of CDs, and tens of thousands of LPs and 78s... As I listen to my iPod, I use the star ratings to mark files to keep or delete. Every time I dock, I jettison the one stars and add more music. I've been doing this for the past couple of years, and my library has become more and more refined as time goes by. Eventually, I will have 30 gigs of just the best. Then I can get another iPod and do the same for classical music.

How do you go about determining which Django tunes are the gems? They're all gems to me. I would just keep it all in a compressed format. I have Fats Waller's entire output on my iPod, as well as just about all of Cab Calloway. I had everything Benny Goodman recorded on there at one point, but that was just too much.

See ya
Steve