Storage Capacity With Lossless?

[GainHead]

Can anyone tell me what the approximate storage capacity (number of songs) is with Apple lossless in a 40GB 4G iPod? Thanks.

 

[lan]

That really depends on the length of the songs. I'd say about 100 hours worth of music.

 

[BigFil]

My quick and dirty calculation came up with about 123 CD's worth assuming each CD took up a full 650 megabytes and Apple Lossless consistently reduced the size by half. Realize that some CD's may be a little more or a little less and the size reduction on Apple lossless will be plus or minus by a little also but it would probably average out over the long run. Either way, it's still a good chunk of music.

 

[Dylan]

Apple's marketing numbers are based on 128 kbs. Lossless is likely going to average about 6 times that. So dividing Apple's numbers by 6 is a decent rule of thumb.

 

[GainHead]

Thanks all.

 

[lindrone]

I have a total of 741 songs with about 17.4GB of storage still left on the iPod. If each song average 4 minutes or so (some shorter, some much longer), I have about 50 hours of music already.

So I would say you should be looking at probably 80~90 hours of music on your 40GB iPod when using all lossless.

 

[KurtW]

I have 1018 songs, taking 28.6GB, for 3.6 days or 86 hours of music, all lossless. Note thought that you can only get 37GB of music on the 40GB ipod.

 

[GainHead]

Based on lindrone and KurtW's experience, it appears that the 40GB iPod can hold about 110 hours of music total - very close to Ian's estimate.