2gb mp3 player help required

john.xs

a friend has just bought a 2gb (?maxfield) mp3 player from argos at a sale price.
he was under the impression he would be able to record around 500 tunes.
after recording 47 tunes(the majority under 4mins long) his mp3 will not take any more.
he says argos will not let him return it as they sold it at a sale price.
has anyone had this problem?
what would you advise ?
thanks in advance , john

avfc4life

When it says he should be able to fit 500 songs on there it is on average taking into account how big the songs are. Say if each of the songs are 4mb then you would be able to fit 512 songs on there (2048/4 = 512) So it all depends upon the size of his songs. If the mp3 files are massive then he will be able to fit more on. If he can only fit 47 songs on there then each song will have to be about 44mb in size which is odviously wrong for each song being about 4 mins in length. Tell him to check the size of each of the mp3's and then perhaps take every song off his player and then upload again. If the problem carrys on then go back to Argos and ask for a refund. They have to refund you (i think) as the item is odviously faulty unless your friend is downloading some seriously large mp3 files:rotfl: It may just be a bug or one of the mp3's maybe faulty and cause this so try what i said and then if it doesnt work then tell him to tell Argos the item is faulty and he wants a refund.

Donnie

Tell him to remember to encode them to mp3 format.

kingmonkey

EDIT: sorry, slow at posting.

john.xs

thanks everyone i will pass on info

john.xs

donnie this may be a thick question but what do you mean by encode mp3 format
he seems to be recording songs off a stereo rather than a computer.could this be the problem

Idiophreak

It depends what he's using to save the recordings...check the file names...if they end .mp3 they're (shockingly ) mp3 files...if they're ending in WAV, CDA, etc, the file sizes will be *much* larger than the MP3 equivalent.

He'll then need to get some software (sorry, don't know much about that side of things, so can't recommend anything) to compress the wav etc into MP3

coolagarry

john.xs. You friend will have to get his head around mp3 files. Files on a normal audio cd are very large and they need be reduced to about 10% of their original size, by converting them to mp3 files, so that lots of them will fit onto an mp3 player.

Assuming your friend has a PC with Windows media player, tell him to run Media Player and click on 'Rip'. That will give him instructions on how to 'rip the audio files on the cd to mp3 files on the PC (it begins 'put an audio cd into the cd drive).
Those small mp3 files are the ones he needs to put onto his mp3 player.

nickmack

john.xs wrote: »

donnie this may be a thick question but what do you mean by encode mp3 format
he seems to be recording songs off a stereo rather than a computer.could this be the problem

They're probably raw WAV files. These are about uncompressed and about 40Mb in size for a few minute song (hence why 47 songs has filled the MP3 player).

You can rip and encode MP3 using something like Windows Media Player.

john.xs

thanks everyone everything is now much clearer.i had an inkling he may have been using the format that takes up more space but hadnt got the knowledge to explain it to him.he was trying to get away without using a computer.