Comments on: Would you want a 500,000 GB MP3 Player?

By: Atouchofclass

Atouchofclass — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:07:31 +0000

500,000 gb holds 40,000 songs? What songs do you listen to, never ending operas?

500,000 gb / 40,000 songs = 12.6 gb per song.

based on a more realistic idea of 250 songs per gigabyte youd get 125,000,000 songs on a 500,000 gb player. which is obviously ridiculous.

Are you sure you got the numbers right?

Klaus — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:59:16 +0000

That’s only 12,5GB per song! Must be really good quality tunes.

Jordan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:57:44 +0000

Looks like your math is off:

MP3s are about 1mb per minute, songs are around 3 minutes long on average… so 40,000 songs = 120,000 MB or 120 GB.

120,000 minutes = 2000 hours = 83.33 days.

1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes
1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes
1 gigabyte = 1000 megabytes.

If you had 4 petabytes of space… Let’s see here…

4,000,000,000 megabytes. 3 mb per song is 1,333,333,333 songs or 22,222,222 hours or 925,925 days or 2,536 years worth of music.

Csaba — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:52:04 +0000

At an average mp3 size of 5 MB, that would 100 million songs, if i’m not mistaken.