mp3 player-i recently bought one with 256mb on-it said it holds up to 80 songs well ive only managed to put 30

Question

on it (and no they are not lengthy songs) and now it says its full already any ideas?? serious answers only please thanx in advance

Answer 1

there are TWO (main) types of sound file, both of which play on most players.
These are WAV and Mp3.
Mp3 is the older, more established file type, and is not condensed.
Wma means Windows Media Audio (file) and was invented by microsoft, for their Windows Media Player. These are condensed (like a zip file), so they are slightly less quality, But you get more music, per Mb.
There is next, something called "bit rate", which, is the speed of the data, WHEN it was recorded.
A high "bit rate" gives excellent quality, but uses more Mb per song, often, twice as much.
So, a low bit rate, and WMA file type, save lots of space, and give 80 songs, per 256Mb.
Increase the bit rate, or use Mp3 encoding, or both, and you only get 30 songs per 256Mb, of better sound quality.
Typically, a 3 minute (ish) Mp3 song, uses 3.5Mb.
Recorded at high bit rate, this is increased to 7.5Mb (average).
256Mb divided by 7.5mb is 32 songs.
The quoted 256Mb may also include the players own operating software.

Answer 2

MP3 is a compression format - you can chose the sample rate for the compression algorithm. If you chose to sample at 320k then the files will be large and the quality excellent - sampling at 64k will give much smaller files but poorer quality. That said most Internet radio transmissions are in the 64k region as this allows people with dial-up modems (remember them) to listen to the station. To maximise the number of tracks on you player reduce the sample rate for the MP3 compression software.

Answer 3

I tis the to do with the bitrate if 320 the file maybe 5 to 6 megabytes for a three minute song you should get mp3 converter to make them from 96kps to 120kps. A three minute tack should be from 3 to 4 megabytes.

Answer 4

Your "number of songs" storage capacity will be affected by 2 things:
1) The lengths of the songs (which you say isn't an issue).
2) The encoding quality of those songs.

If you have a 256meg stick and 80 songs is the target, then that's 3.2 meg per song, which is enough for a standard length song encoded at 128kilobits per second (which is good enough quality for me). If you double the quality of encoding, then you halve the number of songs you can store. Conversely, by halving the quality you can double your capacity (although I personally feel 64kbs is not good enough).

Answer 5

the number of mp3s u can hold in 1gb depends on the bitrate they're ripped at. the higher the bitrate, the larger the mp3. I usually rip mine at 128kb/s, most of my files are at 128 or 192, and i can fit around 80 on a 512mb card. u can only fit 685 songs in 1gb if the bitrate was ridiculously low, like 64kb/s As for windows media player and Sony, what's happened is that the Sony software has been turned into your default player for music files. What u need to do is either go into Windows Media Player and go to Tools ---> Options ----> File Types and select the files u want it to be the default player for OR go into Windows Explorer, click on Tools ---> Folder Options ---> File Types, find and click on the mp3 extension, and change the default player back to Windows Media player using the "Change" button

Answer 6

that number is really just an estimate, what you really should be looking at are the types of files you're transferring. Your player may infact hold 80 songs at a really low bitrate. you'll have to convert some of your music files to a lower quality format.

Answer 7

o when it say 80 songs, mostly likely it means based on 4 minute song in .wma format, that format takes less space. the box of the mp3 should say so, you should see an asterisk telling you what the number of songs is based on

Answer 8

Yeah they r a rip u need a 1gb or 2 gb 2 is really good and u can get at a great price on ebay.

Answer 9

whatever you do dont listen ''inspecta gadget'' ipods are the STUPIDEST money spending item in the world. you might as well just buy a ketchup packet for $50. you should buy a more reasonable priced item like the Creative Zen Sleek Photo -20gig, $160.00 (walmart)

Answer 10

dont worry it happened to me to. mine was supposed to hold 256 i think and it only held about 100. you could get 256 if the songs were like not even a mintue long. try getting an ipod i guess.