Can't get 2 GBs on my 2GB MicroSD

Question

This may have less to do with my 5300 than my memory card and Mac but I just bought an AData 2GB MicroSD card to squeeze more music onto my phone. The problem is, after I get about 300 MBs on it, the card can't fit anymore music on it. But here's the catch: both my phone and my Mac recognizes the MicroSD card as having 1.89GBs of space available. And even after adding nearly 300MBs to it, it still had about 1.6 GBs available. So why can't I add more music? The Nokia branded 512MBs that came with the phone allowed me to fill it to the brim, so I know that it isn't iTunes or anything else that's prohibiting my from adding more music. Also, I tried using the card in my digital camera and uploading the music by way of the camera's doc (because my Mac doesn't have a card reader) and I ran into the same trouble. I have reformatted the card, and still no luck. Help, please!

Answer 1

Hi fred,
I'm not trying to argue here
I would agree that sometimes it's difficult to "hear" the difference, but that doesn't mean that there is no difference.
Everytime you digitalize something a bit of the original information is lost in the process. To minimize this we oversample the audio tracks.
Further, even though the original analog music may have a range from 10-45 KHz, most people only hear from 100+ to maybe 15 KHz. So most people cannot hear a difference when some frequency content is lost. And I'm not saying I can by the way
Then when you further encode into MPEG compression algorithms, more information is lost, this is due to the way it works. It takes the WAV or PCM stream and removes "reduntant" information and reduces the frequency contents.
If you then re-encode the file, you remove more information.
But I agree with you, in most cases you won't be able to detect by ear these errors. But if you use a sprectrum analyzer or audio analyzer you can compare the files and see where some frequencies have been cropped or removed altogether.
The "hearing" is further modified by the headphones you use or the equipment you connect to reproduce the sound. A good pair of headphones from Audiotechnica will make a difference, if you connect some cheap headphones you will never notice the difference since the cheap ones won't have the frequency response necessary to be able to reproduce the full sound.
In one of the demos for the N91 they had a B&O (Bang&Oluffsen) stereo connected to the N91. The sound was beutiful.
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