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Posted 27 March 2005 - 10:57 PM

Because of some of my recent accomplishments, my parents felt it appropriate to purchase me and iPod mini. I am very excited. However! It came to my attention that the iPod mini does not indeed hold 1500 songs. It says right now that I have 181 songs at 4.65 GB. I have a 6 GB mini, so I wonder...is it a scam? Even if all my songs were eight minutes long, I would still be able to fit 750 songs onto it. Does this mean I have to compress all of my songs or something. I'm hoping there's a solution I'm just not seeing.
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Posted 27 March 2005 - 10:59 PM

What the hell? How did you get 181 songs to be 4.65Gb? My 356 songs are only 1.58gb. I suggest using iTunes to convert them from what ever form they are in to 128kps AAC that should make them small enough to get the 1500 songs.

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 11:05 PM

I am using iTunes and they're at 128 kps AAC.
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Posted 27 March 2005 - 11:11 PM

moonunit4eva, on Mar 27 2005, 11:05 PM, said:

I am using iTunes and they're at 128 kps AAC.
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Are you sure they aren't Apple Lossless?

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Posted 27 March 2005 - 11:15 PM

The number of songs it holds is an irrelevant number. If you have like, 1 opera it could take up half your iPod. The number of songs is based on 4-minute, 3 MB tracks or something close to that.
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 01:04 AM

949 songs here, 4.72GB. And my collection's mainly 192kps AAC. I think you've compressed your songs wrong, µ. "Get Info" on a bunch of them to see whether they are indeed 128kps. It might be that a bunch of lossless songs are clogging up your system - or perhaps you imported a bunch of .wav files?
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 01:11 AM

I wish my computer could run iTunes. *sob*DAMN YOU, WINDOW$ 98!!!
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 01:32 AM

I'm sorry, but I'm not too fond of iPods. I fail to see how they are worth more money than other MP3 players.
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 02:18 AM

Sundered Angel, on Mar 27 2005, 11:04 PM, said:

It might be that a bunch of lossless songs are clogging up your system - or perhaps you imported a bunch of .wav files?
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Or even .aiff? Those are just as large. Also check for 320kps song files, those are often twice as large as most people want for an (arguably) miniscule quality improvement.

I'm not sure its solely song length. I have 915 songs for 78 hours worth of music, and they take up around 5.2 GB.

My largest songs, cds I joined all into one track, run at about 70MB for 75 minutes. If you have a bunch of CDs/long tracks (Beethoven's symphonies for example, average around 20 minutes per part) then you aren't going to be able to fit 1500 songs on your pod.

The average mainstream song is about 3-4 minutes, which is why [as someone else mentioned] that number was used to come up with the 1500 song estimate.
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 12:22 PM

vecoriwen, on Mar 28 2005, 01:32 AM, said:

I'm sorry, but I'm not too fond of iPods. I fail to see how they are worth more money than other MP3 players.
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Better quality, and ability to use AAC instead of WMA when buying from online stores does it for me. Oh, and I can use Firewire since I don't have USB 2.0 on my machine makes moving all the songs much much faster.

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 01:13 PM

And they can be abused to hell and back. They're realllly sturdy. They can survive a washing machine.

And they're way easier to use. and..

get the picture?
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 01:59 PM

iPod does it right. Apple has it figured. Course, if you're hard over on the mone, feel free not to buy one.

I have 648 songs taking up 2.7 gigs.
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 05:02 PM

I recently got a Shuffle for my b-day.

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96 songs, 406 MB.
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 06:39 PM

Ok! I've got it! Thank you. I have Danny Boy as 1411 kps and it all of my songs with a few exceptions are all .wav files. Heh. Thanks a ton!
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 06:41 PM

Why would you possibly have that song?

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 09:28 PM

It happens to hold a special place in my heart. It's very touching. And it's very Sinata.

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 11:14 PM

That song makes me want to throw something at someone whenever we play it in band.
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Posted 28 March 2005 - 11:24 PM

That's cuz we don't have Frank singing it.
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 12:45 AM

moonunit4eva, on Mar 28 2005, 11:39 PM, said:

Ok!  I've got it!  Thank you.  I have Danny Boy as 1411 kps and it all of my songs with a few exceptions are all .wav files.  Heh.  Thanks a ton!
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1411 kps? The data rate on a CD is only 512 kps! That's comparable the data rate used in sound studios - how did you ever end up with a file like that?
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 02:02 AM

Are you sure? Back when I was importing CDs as aiffs, they read something like 1411 kps. At any rate, it was over 1100.
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 06:49 AM

I have an iPod, and because I always end up getting it wet I have a shuffle that keeps me going when it's broken.

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 09:24 AM

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I have an iPod, and because I always end up getting it wet I have a shuffle that keeps me going when it's broken.
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 11:06 AM

moonunit4eva, on Mar 28 2005, 09:24 PM, said:

That's cuz we don't have Frank singing it.
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Ugh, that would make it worse...
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 12:00 PM

No, it most definitely would not make it worse. You're a poot head!

Just kidding :P

But really, I have 5 versions. The Barker version we played, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Harry Connick Jr., and the Frank version.

TAKE THAT!
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Posted 29 March 2005 - 02:34 PM

:staggers backward from the sheer awfulness of even contemplating that:
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