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Approximately how much storage wouls I need for 15,000 songs Mostly 3-4 minutes each song?

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 9:38 AM

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ed2345

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Aug 5, 2021 3:02 PM in response to randomjack

Randomjack,

At common encoding bitrates like AAC/256 and MP3/256, a 4 minute song takes about 8 MB. So 15,000 songs would take about 120 GB. (If you use a lossless format it will be much higher.)

randomjack Author

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Aug 5, 2021 5:11 PM in response to ed2345

Thank You. That is very helpful.

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