Does the size of a song affect the how many songs an ipod hold up?

Question

I was wondering, if I add songs that like 14mb's to a ipod. Will it affect how much the ipod can store up to?

Answer 1

Yes they affect the amount of songs you can put on youir player. Generally they don't say "holds up to 1000 songs" they say "holds 2GB". Different songs are different sizes so it really varies on the size of the file along. The bigger the size of the memory, the more songs u can fit on your player.

Answer 2

Ok, imagine this... You have a 30 GB iPod. You have a 14 GB song (don't ask, just... play along). Do you think you'll be able to store as many songs on the iPod with the 14 GB song on there? No, it takes up more space. The same applies to the 14 MB song, but on a much smaller scale. Also, if they say "Holds up to 2500 songs!", they usually mean "2500 songs at 128 kbps" or some other small bitrate. At that quality, the filesize for a song is smaller than a song that's been ripped at, say, 320 kbps. Maybe as much as half as big as the 320 kbps song. So if you always rip your songs to a 320 kbps bitrate, the player won't hold 2500 songs because you're using up more space than they projected would be used with 2500 songs at 128 kbps... If that makes sense.

There's also another issue where some players might have a lot of space but they can only recognize up to a certain number of files, so you might have a lot of songs at 92 kbps, but they won't all fit on the player because it can't recognize that many files at once on its harddrive.

Anyway...

Answer 3

yes the size file of the song you're downloading does affect the total amoint of songs you may place into your ipod. apple estimates the typical song to be 4 minutes in length when they determine how many songs a gig will hold

Answer 4

Yes, the songs any mp3 player can hold depend soley on the size of an mp3 file itself. The estimates on the box take the file size of an average mp3 file and uses that as a base and calculates the number of average-sized mp3s it can hold.

Answer 5

It affects it. It would take up "14mb" out of however many GB your ipod it. a mega-byte is alot smaller than a giga-byte, i think