[fishski13]

folks,
i'm too lazy to search this out.

my wife suprised me a 2G iPod today. i was planning on using it as a means to shuffle lossless music from my cd collection saved on my 'puter's HD. how many minutes of lossless music will a gigabyte hold?

Thanks!

PACE

 

[fjf]

Depends on the complexity of the music and the encoding type you use, but the lossless bitrate is around 600 Kbps. Just multiply.

 

[fishski13]

is my math right?

1 gig x (1048576 kb/1 gig) x (1 s/600 kb) x (1 min/60 s) = 29 min.

it seems a bit off. are we talking bits or bytes. can somebody do the math for me

?

PACE

 

[Zorander]

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishski13 /img/forum/go_quote.gif folks, i'm too lazy to search this out. my wife suprised me a 2G iPod today. i was planning on using it as a means to shuffle lossless music from my cd collection saved on my 'puter's HD. how many minutes of lossless music will a gigabyte hold? Thanks! PACE

Roughly 2-3 albums worth of length.

 

[tot]

Quote:

Originally Posted by fjf /img/forum/go_quote.gif Depends on the complexity of the music and the encoding type you use, but the lossless bitrate is around 600 Kbps.

I'd say average is more, more than 900 kbps, but that really varies. Pessimistic 1000 kbps makes (1000 / 8 (bits per byte to get bytes)) * 3600 (seconds per hour) to be 450 MB per hour. So 2 GB could have about somewhere between 4 and 5 hours or lossless music.

 

[fishski13]

thanks!

i may need to move up to a 4 gig.

PACE

 

[mrarroyo]

On average a CD uses 350 MB when converted to Apple Lossless. So on 2 GB you should be able to put 5 Cd's or about 4 horus of music.

 

[Denver Max]

With album artwork, and encoded in Apple Lossless, I have 84 albums on my iPod, which is 27.4GB in capacity. Convert that down to 2GB and you are looking at 6.1 albums.

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by fishski13 /img/forum/go_quote.gif is my math right?

Nope!
I think this one is better...

1048576 (1GB = 1048576 KiloByte) * 8 (1 KiloByte = 8 Kilobit) / 600 (1s = 600 Kilobit) / 60 (1min = 60 sec) = 233 min.

 

[fishski13]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Nope! I think this one is better... 1048576 (1GB = 1048576 KiloByte) * 8 (1 KiloByte = 8 Kilobit) / 600 (1s = 600 Kilobit) / 60 (1min = 60 sec) = 233 min.

yup, i wasn't far off though. i didn't realize that i needed to convert kilobytes to kilobits - multiply my answer, 29 min., by 8 and you get 232 min.

rumor has it that Apple is releasing a new generation of iPods on Sept. 5. i think i'll return this one and wait...

PACE