How do I know that 30GB holds 7,500 songs? What is the calculation for this equation? Best answer will be announced. Thank you.
2007-02-13 13:49:59 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Hey, 30gb equals to 30000mb, and each song is different amount of mb one could be 5mb and one could be 15mb it all depends on size of the song, soo if you wanna calculate get 30000mb divide it by how many mb is your song and you will get the exact amount of songs you can fit on it!!! 30000 divided by 5mb a song = 6000 songs and 5 mb is the minium a song is. soo 7500 is kind of not true.
2007-02-13 13:54:51 · answer #1 · answered by Romashkin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The kibibyte is closely related to the kilobyte, which can be used either as an (inaccurate) synonym for kibibyte or to refer to 103 bytes = 1,000 bytes (see binary prefix).
Usage of these terms is intended to avoid the confusion, common in describing storage media, as to the ambiguous meaning of "kilobyte". Thus the term kibibyte has evolved to refer exclusively to 1,024 bytes.
This problem of confusion of the term kilobyte being used to refer to both 1,000 and 1,024 bytes became more prevalent when computer hard drives grew to the gigabyte and larger sizes, because if one expects power-of-two values to refer to capacity, and manufacturers were using power-of-ten values, the difference could be substantial; e.g., 1 megabyte, if expressed as a power of two, is 10242 or 1024Ã1024, or 1,048,576, while the prefix mega- usually means 1,000,000. In the case of a "gigabyte", if one uses 10243, the size of a drive would be expected to be 1,073,741,824 bytes per gigabyte versus a mere 1,000,000,000. On a 100-gigabyte drive, the difference is more than 7 billion characters of storage, depending on whether 100 gigabytes refers to 100Ã10003 or 100Ã10243.
the averge song is about 4200 kb you do the math......
LOL
2007-02-13 22:13:02 · answer #2 · answered by c0mplicated_s0ul 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The average time of a song being about 3.5 min's the size of this in the most widely accepted mp3 format is roughly 4 megs. This is of course a estimate that is mainly used for marketing.
2007-02-13 21:56:37 · answer #3 · answered by Joshua D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are 1024 mbs in one gb. say the average mp3 is 3.5 mbs. multiply that by by 7500 and you will get 26250 used mbs. divide that by 1024 to find out how many gbs that is. 26250/1024 =25.63 gb smaller than 30 gb.
so the formula to find out how many songs can fit on a drive is
1024*drive capacity/ avg mp3 size
just a quick formula there is a bit margin of error since it is only an average of mp3 and each mp3 is not exactly the same.
2007-02-13 22:27:39 · answer #4 · answered by mattseegel_03 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't be done because all songs are not the same length. Try copying the song, "Alice's Restaurant", 7500 times in 30 gigs..........never happen. To know why look up the song, it is by Arlo Guthrie.
2007-02-13 21:55:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a very rough estimate which depends on the bitrate and length of the music file and the type of encoder used.
2007-02-13 21:58:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Song capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; actual capacity varies by content.
2007-02-13 21:55:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an estimate, there is absolutely no way to know how many songs will fit on a disk.
2007-02-13 21:55:20 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i iam sure 30gb will hold 7500 songs
2007-02-13 21:52:33 · answer #9 · answered by unknown_62005 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You cant! It depends on the bitrate that the songs were recorded at and the length of the songs!
2007-02-13 22:00:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋