How many songs are equivalent to 40GB? am new to broadband and don't want to exceed monthly usage. Help !!

Answer 1

well my 80gb ipod holds 20000 songs
and half of that would be 10000 songs
watch out though, these are 3 min songs
go about 500 less to be safe

Answer 2

1Gb a month is very easy to go over. In the past 3 days, I have downloaded 18Gb, and uploaded nearly 5Gb. Everything contributes. Any program that talks to the web, probably sends a few kb's a second. If you are running Vista, right click the bottom bar, go to task manager, then performance, then resource monitor. In there you will see a graph of network usage as well as a table for it. You can see all the things using the network and how much textually and graphically. If you play online games, that's a big one. Also 1Gb is for all computers, so if you have multiple computers networked together and share the connection, every one of them is leeching network usage all the time. You can download programs will give you detailed reports on bandwidth usage, or you can setup a router to automatically limit certain computers either at certain times, or for maximum allowed transfer each or total.

Answer 3

You're talking about 10,000 average size mp3s. You must remember that downloading songs and videos are not all that take up your useage, browsing the internet, games etc will all add to that.

Having said all that I used to be on a package with a monthly useage and consistenly went over the limits but was never pulled up for it. That was BT Broadband......No limits now :)


Just read Spookys comments:

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"It depends on the format of the song's, if they are in wma format then you are looking at @ 330 songs perGb, so 40 Gb can hold @13200 songs, if in mp3 format you can effectively tripple that."

So you are saying you can fit 39,600 mp3s on a 40gb HD?! That's only just over 1mb average

Answer 4

Approx 8,000-8,5000 if the songs are between 4.5mb-5mb. However you'll never download that many even if you don't get them from websites. If you had Soulseek on 24/7 you'd still never download that many in a month.

Answer 5

Normally songs are of 4 mb to 6 mb size unless they are too long. You know how many mbs make one GB Divide one GB with say 8 and you get that many songs, then multiply it by 40 and you know the answer

Answer 6

Hi there, assuming you download mp3s that average approximately 5MB in size (this is what a typical song that goes for 3-4min takes up), 40GB will give you ~8,000 songs!

So you don't have that much to worry about!

Answer 7

when you browse web pages, you actually DOWNLOAD data such as images, animation , etc. So, calculating how many songs you download is not going to help. Data transferred while browsing, uploading and downloading are all taken into account. Use a software that monitors your data transfer.

I use a software called tick. It will log your data usage and accurately show you how much you have used. Its free....

http://www.reallyeffective.co.uk/

Answer 8

That's a lot. you see my old 2 gb ipod mini stores around 1000 mp3s. so if you have a limit of 40 gb just divide it by 2, and multiply it by 1000. You get around 20 thousand mp3 songs. mp3 songs are compressed while .wav songs are uncompressed so .wav songs are larger (more mb) than mp3s.

Answer 9

An avergae music file for downloading would be aruond 3Mb, so that would be over 13,000 per month.

A film is usually around 0.5Gb so you could download 80 films.

That is a huge amount which you won;t go anywhere near to getting to,

Answer 10

It depends on the format of the song's, if they are in wma format then you are looking at @ 330 songs perGb, so 40 Gb can hold @13200 songs, if in mp3 format you can effectively tripple that.