Those were the famous words spoken by Steve jobs when the original iPod was announced back in 01. Now the original iPod was released in 5GB. But what gets me is how can 5GB hold 1000 songs, when I have 975 songs on my iPod touch, and that takes up 7GB...what's the deal?
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iPod 1,000 songs in your pocket
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it was based off a 128 kilobit bit rate. your 975 songs are probably encoded at a higher bit rate, taking up more space.
<nitpick>It was actually 160</nitpick>
But you're exactly right; 975 songs using 7 GB looks like 256 kb/s.
<nitpick>It was actually 160</nitpick>
right. i think i had the 128 kbps figure from when they launched the itunes music store with 128 aac files (which they said to be the same fidelity as a 160 kbps mp3). i might be wrong still; my memory is not what it used to be.
I'm sorry, can you explain what you are talking about?
Basically, bitrate is an indicator of the quality of the MP3/AAC rip. When I first got an mp3 player, I had to make everything 96kbps or lower as the biggest cards available were 16mb. Megabytes!
These days storage is so cheap you can afford to have much higher quality files, 256kbps or higher is the norm.
It was 128kbps Protected AAC
I just looked at the first album I purchased from iTunes in May of 2003, and the files are all 128kbps Protected AAC files. Most are under 4 MB, so 1000 files at 4MB should be about 4 gigs, so a 5 gig iPod would easily hold 1000 songs.
I just looked at the first album I purchased from iTunes in May of 2003, and the files are all 128kbps Protected AAC files. Most are under 4 MB, so 1000 files at 4MB should be about 4 gigs, so a 5 gig iPod would easily hold 1000 songs.
I'm currently redoing my iTunes and have added a majority of my full albums to the iPod Nano - 1692 songs at 13.11 GB. So I have less than a gig left, hahaha. So almost 2,000 songs in my pocket at 256kbps.
That would be hard to decide on. I've tried it before even. There's a lot of albums that I like every single song off of.
Not originally it wasn't. When the iPod was originally released in '01 iTunes ripped your songs into MP3s. When the store arrived in '03, that's when the FairPlay AACs first appeared, and IIRC the iPod needed a firmware update to work with the store.
Yeah. iTunes Plus introduced the higher quality 256kbps songs (much larger file size). iTunes Plus did not appear until…. around 2007 or later?