Do Creative MP3 players have higher song capaci

I'm doing a lot of research as to what I want to buy along the lines of an MP3 player, and so far the Creative Zen is sort of top of my list, and I'm just having trouble deciding what storage capacity to buy. In my research, the IPOD site and the RIO site both say that 4GB holds roughly 000 songs (depending, obviously), and the 6GB roughly 500. The Creative site says that 4 can hold 2000, 5 can hold 2500, and 6 can hold 3000. I know all of this depends on file sizes and song lengths and whatnot, but that's a big difference? Is this remotely correct? Do the Creative products have a method of compressing files or something?
I'm very confused.

basically the number of files it stores is based on the quality of the file and the length of it. people have often made comments about creatives estimates as for people who dont know much about this sort of thing they can be very mis leading. there is no difference between the number of songs per unit space on different mp3 players. i think the creative estimates are based on like 3 min songs at 64 kb/s quality, which is unrealistic for most people as they keep their collections in 28 or above, i know i do.on my 5 gb zen micro i fit about 300 depends on length of song, can get up to 500, but not close to the described 2500.
i would go for a creative if i were you, how many mp3's do you have and at what quality? and how many more do you invisage getting?

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