How many songs can my itunes hold?

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How many songs can my itunes hold?

Hi. I am wondering if any one knows how much music itunes holds?
I have 192 MB SDRAM of memory?
Can you put too much music on your imac?
Thanks

imac, Mac OS X (10.3.9), ipod nano

Posted on Jan 16, 2006 11:28 AM

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Answer 1

Zevoneer

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Jan 16, 2006 11:47 AM in response to Carrie Lawrence

Depends on the format you use for your songs really, a typical AAC or MP3 is probabaly around 3 to 5 MB. If you consider that a 60GB ipod can hold 15000 AAC format songs you can compare that to the available space you have.

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Answer 2

Jan 16, 2006 12:55 PM in response to Carrie Lawrence

My 20GB Scrollwheel iPod has 2056 songs (MP3 at 192kps) and is using 12.9 GB. Thats 6450Kb average per song... so a 60GB iPod should hold 9562.7 average length songs at 192kps... if my math is right.

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Answer 3

Zevoneer

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Jan 16, 2006 1:12 PM in response to Michael Linneer

I think the Apple figures are based on AAC at 128 kbps, presumably they calculate 15000 average track capacity for 60GB around that.

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Answer 4

Jan 16, 2006 3:30 PM in response to Carrie Lawrence

Hi,

How much music you can have in iTunes depends on how much disk space you have.

When your library is too large for your Mac you can always buy an external drive and move the Library:
iTunes: Moving your iTunes Music folder

Regards
Colin R.

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Answer 5

Feb 4, 2006 11:23 AM in response to Colin Robinson

Thanks, your reply is helpful.

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