i wonder how people in their computer have so many music saved their dosent the music take up alot of memory?

Question

i once download like 4 songs from lime wire but they take up alot of memory they all 4 took up like 4 megabytes of my harddrive is their a way i can like shrink that much space becasue its yust too much how do people have so many songs saved but it dosent look like it takes up alot of memory

Answer 1

it uses disk space not memory

Answer 2

There are a couple factors to consider when downloading or "ripping" (copying a CD) music to your PC. The type of file that you are using (the file type is identified by the extension such as .MPEG, .WAV, etc.), the quality of the copy (this can be controlled from most music software (Media Player, etc.), the level of compression on the drive, and the size of the drive.

I would not recommend compressing a drive or folder in which the music is stored, unless it's listened to from a different location. The compression, especially high compressions, can have an effect on the performance of the music when it's played, as the computer has to work that much harder with reading the file.

The human ear can't hear alot of the tones and the has qualities, so that isn't as important as one might think, and considerably alter the size of the file.

Lastly, I would recommend a high capacity drive, say of 100Gb, if you plan on storing a lot of music, more for videos), and use it exclusively for that purpose. The drive can be bought on the cheap, especially when using a resource like BizRate.com to find a good price, and they are relatively easy to install. You can even get a "Plug-n-play" hard drive that will connect to your USB or FireWire port if that falls more along the lines of your comfort zone with technology.

Answer 3

Yes, it does. I had to get a separate external harddrive to save all that kind of stuff on, because my C: drive was almost full and I kept getting warning messages telling me to delete some files. Well, I don't want to delete any files. If I didn't want them I wouldn't have created/downloaded them in the first place. The external hard drive is an Iomega HDD 80 gigs. I have plenty of disk space now!

Answer 4

Yeah, copy the songs to a CD, save them on the CD and erase the songs off your computer. That's the only way I can think of.
I love downloading music, and I have created my own CD's. Or you can download them to an MP3 player or iPod if you have one.

Answer 5

a regular song usually have about 4 megabytes. people have so many songs saved on their computer becuase they have a lot of memory on their computer

Answer 6

You can reduce the size of the files by converting them from .wav files to .mp3 files. You will need an audio editor to do that. There are many free ones available if you search for audio file converters.

Answer 7

If you encode the songs in the mp3 format, mp3's take up only a little bit of space.

Answer 8

then what for you want this much memory

My computer is a 80 GB computer and 25GB is exclusively for Songs

Answer 9

storage is cheap. 400gb hard drive can be purchases for less then $100. so why the heck not?

Answer 10

Yes it does but people can update it