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how many audio books for 1 gb???

apple says 200 songs for 1 gb but how many audio books???

ipod shuffle, Windows XP

Posted on Nov 20, 2008 12:46 AM

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Nov 20, 2008 4:33 AM in response to mitzos

There is no way to answer this question; too many variables: bitrate of the files and therefore their size, and length of the book, that is, how many files, can vary widely...

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Nov 20, 2008 4:38 AM in response to kbeartx

as you can see i have no idea. i am just considering the ipod shuffle for my kid for christmas. but it would just make sense if he can have at least 20 kids audio book on it. can you answer this?

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Nov 20, 2008 4:47 AM in response to mitzos

How long, in time, is a typical book?

What is the bitrate of those files?

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Nov 20, 2008 10:48 AM in response to kbeartx

a normal children book is ca. 120 minutes long

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Nov 20, 2008 11:08 AM in response to mitzos

I think most audiobooks are 64kbps so

120 * 60 * 64 / 8 / 1024 * 20 = 1.13 GB about

You might want to get the 2GB model

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Nov 20, 2008 12:17 PM in response to ajstahl

ajstahl wrote:
I think most audiobooks are 64kbps so

120 * 60 * 64 / 8 / 1024 * 20 = 1.13 GB about

You might want to get the 2GB model

Audible's "best" (4) encoding uses ACELP which is 32kbps... might want to recalculate.

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Nov 20, 2008 12:42 PM in response to 0Ari0

Thanks for the clarification, so it would be 1.13 / 2 = 0.565 GB. The 1GB model would work fine.

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Nov 20, 2008 2:15 PM in response to ajstahl

Works out to ~10MB per hour of audio.
A 1GB shuffle would get ~75 hours.

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