What format do you usually use?

[rostasi]

Rostasi thanks, I did a different approximation, by taking the number of albums on my nano 8gb (around 70) and multiplying by 20 giving me around 1400 albums. But I think you estimation is probably more accurate. However, even if I were to do this (put all my collection onto a 160gb ipod) I would need to buy a new pc first with a half a terabyte hard disk. Course the ideal solution is to move to a house big enough to have a 'music room' which could comfortably accomodate CD player, turntable, cassette player, large amp and even larger speakers oh and all the CDs, cassettes and LPs on shelving. So I guess I'll start playing the lottery again.

Sure no prob. Instead of resorting to mathematics,

I just ran a "smart playlist" in my own iTunes with the 320kbps

coupled with the arbitrary 2-20 minute rule.

I figured that it may give a pretty good spread average by doing this

because of the quantity of tunes that I currently have on this particular drive

at the moment (which is about 156,000 tunes).

The exact number that it came up with (this first time) in case you're interested:

10326 songs; 35d:9hr:17m:57s; 145GB

Rod

[RogerF]

Rostasi thanks, I did a different approximation, by taking the number of albums on my nano 8gb (around 70) and multiplying by 20 giving me around 1400 albums. But I think you estimation is probably more accurate. However, even if I were to do this (put all my collection onto a 160gb ipod) I would need to buy a new pc first with a half a terabyte hard disk. Course the ideal solution is to move to a house big enough to have a 'music room' which could comfortably accomodate CD player, turntable, cassette player, large amp and even larger speakers oh and all the CDs, cassettes and LPs on shelving. So I guess I'll start playing the lottery again.

Sure no prob. Instead of resorting to mathematics,

I just ran a "smart playlist" in my own iTunes with the 320kbps

coupled with the arbitrary 2-20 minute rule.

I figured that it may give a pretty good spread average by doing this

because of the quantity of tunes that I currently have on this particular drive

at the moment (which is about 156,000 tunes).

The exact number that it came up with (this first time) in case you're interested:

10326 songs; 35d:9hr:17m:57s; 145GB

Rod

Rod - Interesting and useful. Also I must investigate what an iPod classic can do that a nano can't.

[Brute]

I encode at 160 Kbs and currently have about 24,000 songs on my Ipod classic 160 GB with approx. 43 GB remaining.