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General discussion

Number of tracks on MP3

Dec 10, 2010 7:00AM PST

I see lots of quotes of 4GB being enough for around 2,000 tracks. Is this even possible? I've looked at bit rates for conversion and lowering those doesn't make enough difference to get anywhere near 2,000. Is it to do with the tracks original format or should they be converted by the MP3 converter that comes with some MP3's (My Sansa Fuze has one although I'm not sure how to use it or why).
Pretty puzzled, can anyone suggest anything.

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Re: mp3's
Dec 10, 2010 7:08AM PST

A mp3 coded at 128 kbps is about 1 MB per minute. Higher quality, of course, is more MB a minute. So 2.000 tracks in 4 GB means the average track is 2 minutes. That's too short.

Kees

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But what is your point?
Dec 10, 2010 2:34PM PST

To me the number is pointless. There are no establish standard for this as yet which put the number here being meaningless but don't say it can't be done though. I think my mp3 converter go as low as 8 bits and I forgot what the lowest frequency was.