How many songs can the m6 hold?

12-06-2006

so ive been researching for the m6 a lot and want one rly badly

anyway, all websites say that the m6 with 4 gb can hold 1000 songs
BUT the iriver clix that has 2 gb can hold 1000 songs

so does the m6 hold 1000 songs or 2000 songs :D

barrist · 12-06-2006

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Originally Posted by davidkim

so ive been researching for the m6 a lot and want one rly badly

anyway, all websites say that the m6 with 4 gb can hold 1000 songs
BUT the iriver clix that has 2 gb can hold 1000 songs

so does the m6 hold 1000 songs or 2000 songs :D

depends on the bitrate, file type, song length etc.

Job · 12-06-2006

true...
those numbers on boxes are usually pretty useless

with a player that sounds as good as the M6 I wont use low bitrate stuff...
certainly nothing under 160kbs VBR m3

my 4gb M6 maxes out at about 750 songs..
sure you can pput 200 songs on it... if they are lower quality or very sort songs

glacier · 12-07-2006

well, the previous posters have pretty much said it all. but to make it somewhat clearer

lower quality = lower bitrate = smaller file = more music files can be crammed into your DAP

i have the 4G m6 and it currently holds 3 anime episodes and 900+ songs (mp3's with bitrate from 128-320) as well as some pics. and i still have some free space.

Nickle · 12-07-2006

I don't see why people would be so fanatical and store 1000 songs on the MP3 player, seriously.

Anyway, I only think the amount of songs is limited by the memory of the unit

richardg · 12-07-2006

The easy answer is to get one of your audio files (average duration), convert it to the quality and format you want for your DAP, look at the file size and divide an MP3 memory size by your MP3 file size.

Like serveral other posters here I think, the overall memory of the M6 is not the issue, after all I have over 15Gb of MP3 files in M6 prepared file sizes - there's no way I'm gonna want to put them all of a flash player. I only ever listen to a range of probably 2-300 at a time and this leaves plenty of spave on the M6 4Gb for several movies/shows as well.

puffel · 12-07-2006

It is like this:
If you can store ~2000 songs on 4G, then you can only store ~1000 songs on 2G (in this example the songs are all of the same size).
Of course the size of a song depends on its quality and its format (like said above). So how many songs you actually can store on your device depends on your music.

khanhfat · 12-10-2006

Well, I have about 900mb videos, and some other 2.4 gb of music or sth. then the rest is about 500 to 400mb free which i use to transfer random files and Record.

The manufacturer count songs @ bitrate of 128KPS .

Nickle · 12-10-2006

yeah well, I guess you have to account for the videos as well!1

Betacart · 12-10-2006

Up to 2500 files.