how many albumns approx should you get on a 4gb mp4 player?

jamminjamaica

hi there

just wondered if anyone could answer how many albumns on average you should be able to gt on a 4gb mp4 player

B33fy

Assuming the tracks are compressed to mp3s at a reasonable compression rate (good quality),say 6mb/track that would mean around 660 tracks or about 40 albums, you will get more if you use more compression but lose quality

tightrs

i would estimate 65 but i'm no expert have put 4 albums on a 256mb mp3 and there was very little space left HTH.

Little_John

I just selected a few albums on my drive done at 160Kbps
Compilation albums are usually bigger than an album released by an artist they cram as many tracks on there as they can usually 80 minutes so if thats all your collection is then you aint gonna get that many on there. maybe about 50-55 CDs remember most compilation albums are 2 cd's so your talking 23 maybe.
Normal albums vary in length from about 40 minutes upwards so they could I just selected a bunch of single cd albums and I got to 70 before I broke the 4GB so you should be looking at about that.

If you have mp3s in a lower bitrate then you will get more on its personal choice.

jamminjamaica

how do you compress music files? i have just dropped the music cd from the computer to the mp4 does it use up more space that way?

wonderfullife_2

Hi
If you have wmp10, you can rip cds to mp3's, just go to Tools. Options, Rip Music, change the drop down box to mp3, and below this you can also adjust audio quality, usually 192+ for music files.
The difference between audio cd's and mp3's, audio cds measure in time, usually 80mins, mp3's measure in quantity, you can get 700mb onto a normal cd.
One of the HP books, is 17 audio cd's, once converted to mp3, they were about 1200-1400mbs, so I could get them on just 2 cd's, thats the difference.


Hope this helps

Rev

I convert all my music to WMA 64kbps (I'm assuming your player can play WMA's) using DBPoweramp, same sound quality as 128k MP3's but smaller file size. I tried higher rate MP3's to test sound quality and the 64k WMA's sound just as good IMO.

I have a 4gig creative and so far it has 1400 (95 albums so far) tracks on in and I have 1.2 gig left.