How Much Empty Space Is On Your iPod?
from the but-think-of-the-possibilities... dept
When the first iPods came out, it was a revolution in terms of the amount of music that could be stored on a device that portable. Over the last few years, the size of the hard drive has only grown and grown, so that people can now store an absolutely amazing amount of music on their iPods. With all of that space, however, how much would you think most people store? According to one study, the average iPod users has only 375 songs on it, even as people keep buying the ones with bigger and bigger hard drives. Perhaps it's just the possibility of maybe (no, really!) one day being able to store more music that drives people. Update: As pointed out in the comments, the study concerns all MP3 players, not just iPods, which makes the number a little more understandable. However, it still seems likely that a lot of iPods have a lot of empty space.
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60gb and 0 free space
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vague market research
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Re: vague market research
(a) can store a serious amount of music in modern formats (MP3 is 15 years old and sounds it) and
(b) can play back with serious quality and
(c) has a usable interface and
(d) can also be a good as a phone and
(e) is not be an ugly brick THEN
Yes!!! definately - I want that device. I would put my iPod and my phone on ebay and embrace convergance techonolgies... just show me where to sign!
But I'm not holding my breath!
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BillCo, prepare to hold your breath
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60 gigs and over filled
100% of my music is from iTMS and AllofMp3, and thus paid for (in some fashion).
It is about time that Apple release an 80 gig iPod if not a Video iPod. Time to bump the high end to appease up power users.
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No Subject Given
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100% full & changed often
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10 GB First Gen Ipod is full
I've been looking forward to buying a new IPod that can hold my entire music collection, but justifying spending $400 on replacing my portable music source has been hard since my current player works.
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No Subject Given
That's why un-needed massive storage space will sell very well.
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40GB Full
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Becareful..
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11770 songs and counting
It is filled with 8GB of purchased music from iTMS plus about 800 CDs from my CD collection. I still have ~200 CDs left to rip.
I also have podcasts and photos on there.
Does that make me an extreme user? ;)
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Re: 11770 songs and counting
Looser.
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Re: 11770 songs and counting
You are the loser. You try to dismiss these folks as braggarts, then try to include yourself in a different status club. Who ever admits to being in the 'Digitari'?
Bzzzzzt! Next!
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Re: 11770 songs and counting
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Something's wrong here
If ALL those players were taken into account in this study, then it only seems natural that the average number of songs per player is going to be skewed toward a low number. To imply that this means most people who own 20GB iPods are wasting money is a little disingenuous and borderline Dvorakian.
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iPod
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2 iPods full
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I don't know about you people
Anyway, as you might imagine by my getting rid of the player with the most space (And I am certainly not getting rid of my itsy Xdrum, it can do things that no ipod probably ever can and is tough as nails) I don't think we really need to access 100 gig of music and podcasts at any given time (but it's nice to have them available for when you do feel like hearing some of your less favorite stuff) so I am looking forward to some softwares that is leaps and bounds ahead of itunes in helping me select which music and podcasts I ACTUALLY feel like listening to these days. That would be much more useful to me than carrying around an unnecessarily massive hard drive.
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Ipod
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