how many songs should 6 gigs of memory store?

[konzern]

i have an 8 gig memory card minus 1.4 ext 2 that leaves me 6 gigs of memory for my songs and stuff.

so how many songs would theoretically fit in the card?

my memory card is running out of space and i dont think i have that much music

ill find out how many songs i have in a bit

[konzern]

ok so the count is around 360 if i include the 5 songs from the doom soundtrack
thats not including the sounds of doom though cuz those are just like 1 sec tracks

[Synergy]

well, assuming that the average song is like 3 mb, you should be able to get about 1500 songs.

[konzern]

ok so well leave it at around 1000.......so why am i only getting around 400? wth i dont have alot of pics on my sd card!

maybe its nandroid

[kizer]

Depends on the bit rate, which does effect the file size.

[DrVeronica]

lol I was just thinking of my 44 GB collection of musica on my laptop....wonder when a class 6 50 GB microsd card will come out ;)

[VGPOP]

Wrong thread...

[DrVeronica]

kon check out your nandroid folder and clear it out

[konzern]

i deleted it and it got me like 1000 mbs back

when i used to open my account app
the bar on sd card was almost full! now its empty again

[joshtheitguy]

lol I was just thinking of my 44 GB collection of musica on my laptop....wonder when a class 6 50 GB microsd card will come out ;)

At the current moment in time this is not possible as SDHC is artificially limited at 32 Gb max. Here is part of a wiki on the SDHC (SD 2.0) format:


SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity, SD 2.0) is an extension of the SD standard that appeared in June 2006.[15] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#cite_note-14) SDHC allows standard-compliant capacities in excess of 4 GB. SDHC cards are often formatted with the FAT32 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32) file system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system).[16] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#cite_note-15) It uses the same physical and electrical form factor as SD, but the SD 2.0 standard in SDHC uses a different memory addressing method (sector addressing vs byte addressing), thus theoretically reaching a maximum capacity of up to 2 TB (2048 GB). Currently the SD Card association has artificially defined the maximum limit of SDHC capacity to 32 GB[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#cite_note-16), however the SD card specification states that "SD Memory Cards with a capacity greater than 32 GB will be available with updated versions of [the specification]."[18] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#cite_note-17) SDHC cards work only in SDHC compatible devices, but standard SD cards work in both SD and SDHC devices. The SDHC trademark is licensed to ensure compatibility.[19] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#cite_note-sandisk-sdhc-18)Though with SDXC coming out sometimes I worry that we'll never see an extension of the SD 2.0 standard.

[bobzoz]

on a 6 gb can hold around 1200 songs...you can always use software to convert the music too a smaller format such as ACC but you will loose quality..may not sound as great but u can easily double your space using an ACC format.

[konzern]

i still dont understand why i have 360 songs and i only have around 1000 mbs left, shouldnt i have more than that

[constellanation]

1000 mb = 1 gb I.e. 1/6 of your available space... still a lot of room.

why don't you plug the card into the computer check the properties of your folders and see what's taking up your space.

[konzern]

ahhhhh never thought of that!! i mean the second part of that cuz i know 1000 mbs equal 1gb
im gonna go see which folder is takin up the most space

[gbk1]

Sometimes the quality of the song matters too.
My classical music collection: each music file is about 36 megabytes to 400 megabytes.

[konzern]

wow that revealed alot for me!!!

my music folder is only taking up 1.65 gigs!
the rest are :
downloads 3.36 mbs
doom 28 mbs
dcim 14.3 mbs
backups 23.2 mbs
..ne 8.7 mbs (i still dont know what this file is)

[constellanation]

it appears to me, you don't actually have 6 gb available...

[konzern]

my account app says i have 6,180 MBs

wth lmao i just saw that it shows 1,778 MBs used and 4,402 free!

i deleted all the nandroid backups so i guess that was the problem

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