iTunes music size

hi
I have 4744 songs in my library witch is 12.8 days and 24.28GB in size i have the 30GB hard drive witch is suppose to hold 7500 songs but how is that possible if 4744 = 24.28GB how do i make my music files smaller?

file size is a function of compression and of song length.

are you ripping songs with itunes? in the settings you should be able to find the compression you're using (i'd guess it's 128 by default - for smaller less quality file sizes). what kind of music do you listen to? are the songs generally about 3-4 minutes in length, or are many of them considerably longer?

That works out to an average song lengh of 3:53 and average file size of 5.1M.

i have 32,871, or 86.7 days, or 165.22gb. I dont care how much space it takes up, if I fill up ill buy another HDD.

My advice to the OP, get an external that is more than 30gb, it will fill up FAST

eric said:

file size is a function of compression and of song length.

are you ripping songs with itunes? in the settings you should be able to find the compression you're using (i'd guess it's 128 by default - for smaller less quality file sizes). what kind of music do you listen to? are the songs generally about 3-4 minutes in length, or are many of them considerably longer?

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I don't know what my itunes settings are I looked but cant find it, what do I find it? & I have quite a few songs that run to 10-20 min.

appleisgreat said:

i have 32,871, or 86.7 days, or 165.22gb. I dont care how much space it takes up, if I fill up ill buy another HDD.

My advice to the OP, get an external that is more than 30gb, it will fill up FAST

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I don't care if it fills my HD up its my 30GB iPod witch i don't want to fill up

I have about 300-500 songs with 320kbps bit how do i make then 160?

ta70s said:

I have about 300-500 songs with 320kbps bit how do i make then 160?

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No wonder your drive is filling up, that is about cd quality there. Drop them down to 128 and it will save you a lot of space. Wouldn't go any lower in the mp3 format as the quality really gets bad.

Look for a program called Max, you can find it here:

http://sbooth.org/

It will convert them down for you simply put in the levels you want. Works great been using it for over a year to drop 613 meg .wav files to 78 meg mp3 files for podcast.

thanks, I just spent some time using the iTunes converter so now i have 0 songs larger then 300bite, took a while it turns out i had 700+ song with 320+bite, I saved 4GB.

ta70s said:

thanks, I just spent some time using the iTunes converter so now i have 0 songs larger then 300bite, took a while it turns out i had 700+ song with 320+bite, I saved 4GB.

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Wait a minute... i hesitate to ask, but how big are the actual files now size wise? What format did you save them in and what bitrate? A normal sized song of 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 minutes saved at 128 bitrate would come around 3 to 4 meg or so, what are the ones you did?

Now at 160 bite normal song = 3-4mb

ta70s said:

Now at 160 bite normal song = 3-4mb

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Ok, sounds like you did it right. I was a bit leary when you said something about 300bit... You could have saved a tad more by going to 128 bitrate without any great quality loss, but 160 is close enough.