Actually, many of the tracks are sub 1-2 minutes in length. Second they've been parsed down to 192kbps. The type of music I listen to is rarely aided by lossless files.
Let me state one thing. Each of my iPod 160gb's stores over 22000 tracks, I have three. So I already have 66,000 tracks over three devices with around 460gb of storage (given that no 160gb iPod has 160gb capacity.)
Thirdly, I'm not especially fussed by album art.
Now I iFlashed a previous 160gb iPod and managed to get 40,000 tracks onto one (that's the player limit) using a 500gb SSD. So my only requirement is an intuitive UI, not a flashy one. So is there something I'm missing about the way iPod's store files? I'm not expecting one player to house all 90,000 tracks, but have them spread over a few more portable microSD's.
As a seafarer and regular air traveller you'd be surprised how often your luggage gets examined if you have several similar electrical devices in your luggage.
Agreed. Different assumptions:
- FLAC format, average 35mb per file
- No embedded cover image, so single jpg in album folder, ~12 tracks per album, each jpg about 60kb.
On these assumptions (and we can quibble over 1Mb=1024kb versus 1000kb etc.) you need >3000gb of storage. Even on mp3's say a quarter of that size still breaks everything.
Files | 90000 | |
Each track | 35000 | kb |
Covers | 7500 | |
Each cover | 60 | kb |
Total GB | 3004.5 | gb |
Hope I've not got my mathematical knickers in a twist on this.
Incidentally I was speaking to a guy on the FIIO X5 OTG support thread, he has a setup with a 512gb SSD and two 64GB cards (640gb storage) and manages 19,000 FLAC and some hi-res FLAC which is about 10% in accordance with your estimate:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/766456/fiio-otg-support-thread/90#post_12735243