Song Capacity

Apple claims that this model hold about 2,000 songs. Mine's at 900 and is full. Any suggestions

So is there a way to make more space aside from deleting all the songs?
No
Is there a way to convert them to make them smaller somehow.
No
Audio specs - Audio formats supported: AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), HE-AAC, MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
iPod nano (5th generation) - Technical Specifications

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Song capacity question

I'm a bit unclear on song capacity. I'm pretty sure my ipod mini 4gb was promoted as holding 2000 songs. Now the 4gb models have a claimed 1000 song capapicty and you now need 8gb to hold 2000 songs. What's the real deal? Thanks.

Yeah, I'm sure Apple avoided that pitfall of Creative, which was an extremely good move on their part.
Simply put, get a nano, and you won't go back. Just remember to either:
Buy a case, or
Use the slipcover very often, get to know it. It will be your best friend.
And you should get a white one too. The front doesn't seem to get as scratched as the black one does.

Song capacity of 60G IPod and 20G IPod

I have a 60GB IPod with 517 songs now loaded (approx. 4 minutes per song) and have only 40.2GB still available. My wife has a 20GB IPod with the same songs and has only 3.1GB still available. It seems highly unlikely that my IPod can hold the advertised 15,000 songs or that my wife's IPod and hold the advertised 5,000 songs, or anything close. Perhaps there should be some allowance for the operating system but, even so, the advertised cpacity seems greatly exaggerated. Am I missing something?
IPod 60G; IPod 20G Windows XP
IPod 60G; IPod 20G Windows XP

i hate how apple says you can fit a certain amount of songs on the ipod, it gives people the wrong impression.
Apple's estimates for song capacity is almost perfectly accurate. They specifically indicate that their estimates are based on tracks encoded at 128kbps AAC files of about 4 minutes each. I don't see how you would get the wrong impression.
There's nothing misleading about their estimates if you read and understand how they arrived at the estimates.

Song capacity for iPhone

I have ran a search for this question but nothing came up. How many songs can you load onto the device? I have a library that is over 2,000 songs, and was interested in purchasing an iPhone this summer.
Thanks in advance.

The song capacity for the 16GB iPhone should be about the same as the 16GB iPod Touch, which is up to 3,500 songs.
Music capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding - actual capacity varies by content.
Up to 3500 songs is also based on having no video or photos.
You can't get caught up with the up to number of songs advertisement, since the actual capacity varies by content.
Are all your songs encoded 128-Kbps AAC, and do all songs average 4 minutes per song?
It is more important to go by the storage capacity that your songs take up, which you can determine with iTunes - for all music, or by playlist, etc.
You won't have a full 16GB of storage capacity either. This is the decimal equivalent, which is not the actual. The actual storage capacity for my 8GB iPhone is only about 7.3GB. This takes into account the difference between the advertised storage capacity and the actual - which is less than advertised for all hard drives and flash drives. The same applies to your hard drive's actual capacity on your MacBook. And OS X takes up roughly 500MB or so of the actual.

Song Capacity for 4gb Nano

I am currently thinking of purchasing the 4gb Nano. It states a 1000 song capacity, does anyone know, if you do not use it for photos, will it store more songs?

Try not to think in terms of song quantity. It's merely an estimate.
There is no limit on the number of songs it can hold. You are limited by the available space on the iPod Nano. Apple estimates the 1000 song capacity based on all of your tracks being 128kbps AAC files of about 4 minutes each.
If your tracks are encoded at a lower bitrate, or are typically shorter than 4 minutes each... then you'll fit more songs.
If they are encoded at a higher bitrate, and are typically longer than 4 minutes each... you'll fit less songs.
Photos and music share the same available space on the iPod. If you don't use photos, you'll have more space for songs. If you do use photos, you'll have less space for songs.

Zen Micro Song Capacity?????

I have a white 5gb zen micro purchased december 2004.
Currently I have 909 songs that are taking up 3.88gb. I have 28mb designated for my removable disk. So that only leaves me 77mb of free space. This is not right.
All my songs are in mp3 format and i am nowhere close to the advertised 2500 song capacity.
Has anyone else had this problem or know of a way to fix it. Should I change all my files to WMA's (I thought they were bigger file sizes though)
Not sure what to do.
Mohall

Whoa whoa whoa. We're all just trying to help here.
Nothing out of the ordinary is going on. You have an approriate amount of disk space left for the number of tracks you have on your player. It's all relati've because the length of the tracks also affects the number of tracks you can fit on the player. If you listen to house music, techno, or concertos your average number of tracks on the player will go down because the songs, on average, will be longer.
If you listen to nothing but punk then every song is 2 minutes long and you'll easily fit many more than the quoted number of tracks on the player.
You aren't missing any space on the dri've from what I can tell by your posts. The things quoted here are standardized but no music collection is standardized. There is a huge array of lengths, bitrates, and file types in most people's collections so a perfectly uniform standard that applies to everyone is hard to achieve.

Song Capacity of iPod Classic v Nano & iPod Touch

I have a 160 GB seventh generation iPod classic model. I am thinking of purchasing a new iPod Nano which is listed at a 16 GB capacity or an iPod touch listed at a 16 GB capacity. Roughly, how many songs will the new iPod Nano hold or the new iPod touch hold as compared to my existing iPod classic hundred 160 GB seventh generation model?

The number of songs an iPod will hold depends on the size of song files. If you use have songs with lower-quality "bit rate," their files will be smaller and more will fit in a given amount of space. If the songs are longer (like with classical music), their files will be larger and fewer will fit. An iPod touch is an iOS device (like an iPhone), so you are likely to have other "stuff" on it, such as apps; that will reduce the amount of space available for songs. An iPod nano is a simple media player, so (unless you put videos on it) most of that 16GB will be used for songs.

Ipod 8gb song capacity

I have an ipod touch 8gb - not sure of generation but bought for me as a present new around 3 or 4 years ago, if that helps. (I think it's 4th generation).
I have 637 songs on there, but it now says I am at capacity and can't add anymore. From what I have seen, that sounds a lot less than should be possible. I know it's only a guide, but I've seen adverts for these quoting around 2000 songs - and I haven't got any particularly long tracks on there - the odd 10 minute prog off, balanced against the odd 20 second grindcore tracks...
I've deleted all my apps downloaded to free up more space, so that can't be the problem.
It will presumably be something obvious but I'm at a loss of how to alter it or even find out, so thought I'd post here. Can anyone help?
Thanks.

Capacity
8GB, 16GB, or 32GB flash drive2
Holds up to 1,750, 3,500, or 7,000 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format3
Note 128 ACC is compressed. In the Summary pane for the iPod in iTunes you can specify/change compression

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?

Song capacity keeps getting less and less

i don't know if this problem has been posted already but i use to be able to hold about 475 songs on my ipod, the count keeps getting less and less and now it will only hold 460. why is the itunes not letting me add more even though there once was room? it's very confusing i'm not sure how to explain. can someone please answer this?!!
Windows 2000

coco54321,
I was away from a computer for the last few days.
How many songs do you have in your library?
When looking at the number of songs on the iPod, it will vary based on the the songs themselves.
For example a song encoded at 128kbps will be about 4 MB on average, recorded at 160 will be about 6-7 MB.
Is it the same 475 songs each time, or are you changing some of the songs?
If you restore the iPod, does that change your results?

Ipod shuffle 512mb song capacity

I have a 512 mb shuffle. i can only load about 75 songs on it. they are already at 128kbps. how do i know if they have been converted to the AAC format? If not converted, how do I do it? I'd love to be able to have 120 songs on it! Thanks!

how do i
know if they have been converted to the AAC format?
Open iTunes. Navigate to one of the files in question and right-click on the song's name. Select 'Get Info" then the 'Summary' button.
If not converted, how do I do it? I'd love to be
able to have 120 songs on it! Thanks!
How many you can fit, of course, will depend on the size of the file. Apple's advertised numbers are based on 4-minute songs, as I recall.
Converting the files (if necessary, and if you really want to) would involve going into the iTunes preferences, the Import pane, and selecting AAC as the file type. Then selecting the files to be converted, click 'Advanced" from the iTunes menubar, and 'Convert to AAC'. (This will give you new files in addition to the originals.)
I've never tried this and can't vouch for the quality of the results. Applying lossy compression to a file which has already been compressed lossily (which isn't quite a word), particularly at such a low bit rate, may not provide thw most listenable results.
Goof luck, though
srb

Over song capacity on ipod

Hi,
I have an 8gb 2nd gen nano and I'm over the 8gb. How can I manually select certain songs to put on the ipod but keep the rest in my itunes? iTunes keeps suggesting that it create a special new playlist with randomly selected songs, but when I let it do that I can't see any of my other playlists on my ipod.
How can I keep my playlists and just unselect certain songs from my music library that won't copy across, so that I'm below the 8gb maximum?
Thanks!

See: How to manage the iPod content manually.

Ipod song capacity

ipod specs says it can hold about 500 songs, but my shuffle only sync'd about 250, does anybody know how to fix this, is it possible??? help!!

The storage estimate is based upon 128kbps songs of about 4 minutes length. Do your songs match this?

Help! ipod nano won't hold as many songs as it says it can

I have an ipod nano that is 2GB and can hold up to 500 songs. I only have 113 songs on it and when i try to put more on it it says that there is not enough room to put more songs on it. How do i make it able to hold more songs????
Toshiba Windows XP

Bear in mind that the song limit advertised is based on 4 minute per song, 1MB per minute, encoded as 128 kbps in AAC format.
Check the encoding of your songs. To do this, right click one the sorting columns in iTunes tick bit rate, then click this new column to sort the songs by bit rate. Any songs that are encoded at higher than 128 kbps will be causing excess space to be used for storage. To change the bit rate of these songs you can convert them to AAC format (sound quality will be lost). Or you can reimport them from CD/Computer once you have changed the import settings as detailled below, but that could be time consuming.
To convert go to the edit menu, select preferences, click the advanced tab, and select importing.For best song capacity on the iPod, make sure that the encoder is set to "Import using AAC encoder", and "High quality 128 kbps". Hit OK. Then collect together all the high encoded songs and select them all (click the top one and hold shift, then click the bottom one). Right click the highlighted area and go to "Convert selection to AAC". This could take a while if there are many songs.
Once complete, go to the Edit menu, and select "Show duplicate songs". Delete all the "old" songs, recognisable by their bitrate, format or size. Again, to show these, right click a sorting column, and tick the respective ones.
Once this is done, update the iPod.
If your songs are all changed into 128kbps AAC and are mostly all around 4 mins long, then you should get very close to the song limit advertised

Nano 4g music capacity

Just got the 4G ipod nano and love it - but the estimated 1,000 song capacity is WAY off. I can only get 300-400 songs max. I've talked to customer service, done an update, download, reset, etc., but it didn't seem to change anything. Any advice!?!?!?

Purchased iTunes Music is encoded AAC at 128 kbps bit rate.
The encoding options when importing music from a CD are included under the iTunes import options. You can import songs from a CD as MP3 files selecting your chosen bit rate - the higher the bit rate, the more disc space an imported song will take up. Generally, imported MP3 files at 128 kbps bit rate will take up more disc space than AAC at the same bit rate. You can import music from a CD encoded AAC at 128 kbps bit rate to match purchased iTunes Music.
To change this for songs already imported from a CD, you should delete the songs from within iTunes and re-import the music from the CD at the chosen settings. You can change existing music already imported at a different setting (trans-coding) but you'll lose even more music quality in the process.
See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=238491&tstart=15

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