MP3 player question?
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MP3 player question?
I bought an MP3 player about a year and a half ago and just the other day I decided to use it. It is a RCA Lyra and has 128mb built in memory. Give or take, how many songs should it be able to hold with 128mb? I have filled the whole thing up with just 19 songs. Does this sound about right? It has expandableSD memory so I guess I am going to have to buy one.
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size of the file depends on length and the bitrate.
go in your music directory, right click on where it says name/size/type and check bit rate.
bit rate usually ranges from 96 kbps to 320. i think that factors down to 3:10 so one 4 minute song might be 3.33 times longer than another 4 minute song, depending on the bitrate
i have bob dylan singing "forever young"... at 8 kbps. it sounds like somebody played a tape of his in a cassete player, then held the cassete player up to a computer microphone. when bob wails "forever young" the song starts to break up and it's like he's right there in the room with you it's that bad
anyway i'm told most people couldn't tell a difference anywhere above 160 or 192. if you want to hold more songs, download stuff with a lower bitrate
go in your music directory, right click on where it says name/size/type and check bit rate.
bit rate usually ranges from 96 kbps to 320. i think that factors down to 3:10 so one 4 minute song might be 3.33 times longer than another 4 minute song, depending on the bitrate
i have bob dylan singing "forever young"... at 8 kbps. it sounds like somebody played a tape of his in a cassete player, then held the cassete player up to a computer microphone. when bob wails "forever young" the song starts to break up and it's like he's right there in the room with you it's that bad
anyway i'm told most people couldn't tell a difference anywhere above 160 or 192. if you want to hold more songs, download stuff with a lower bitrate
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I have the same unit and currently have 47 songs on it.
It depends on the compression you are using or bitrate as it were. The higher the bitrate the less songs you'll fit in it. I think most of the songs I have on mine are 64kbit - 96kbit.
128kbit equals about 1 minute per megabyte; at 4 minutes per song you should get about 32 songs.
It depends on the compression you are using or bitrate as it were. The higher the bitrate the less songs you'll fit in it. I think most of the songs I have on mine are 64kbit - 96kbit.
128kbit equals about 1 minute per megabyte; at 4 minutes per song you should get about 32 songs.
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