25-07-2011, 17:23
I've just had a quick look. Apple make a 160GB model which will hold 40000 songs. At say 10 songs per album, that'd be 4000 albums !!
That capacity is only possible using 128kbps encoding, which will be the worst sounding. Presumably a higher bit-rate than 128kbps will deliver better sound, but will reduce the capacity accordingly. 128 kbps may be fine to your ears, in which case one of those i-Pods would be overkill.
BTW the big capacity models use internal hard drives for storage, and I've no idea how robust they are.
To give some idea of the trade-off between bit-rate & capacity, I use an 8GB Nano, which will hold 25 albums using the Apple Lossless codec. This should give pretty good sonic performance. Scaling that up suggests that a 160GB unit would hold 500 albums in Lossless mode.
In summary, 1000 albums is perfectly feasible, but I'd suggest a bit of research into which models offer what capacity, and sort out what bit-rate you want to use.
That capacity is only possible using 128kbps encoding, which will be the worst sounding. Presumably a higher bit-rate than 128kbps will deliver better sound, but will reduce the capacity accordingly. 128 kbps may be fine to your ears, in which case one of those i-Pods would be overkill.
BTW the big capacity models use internal hard drives for storage, and I've no idea how robust they are.
To give some idea of the trade-off between bit-rate & capacity, I use an 8GB Nano, which will hold 25 albums using the Apple Lossless codec. This should give pretty good sonic performance. Scaling that up suggests that a 160GB unit would hold 500 albums in Lossless mode.
In summary, 1000 albums is perfectly feasible, but I'd suggest a bit of research into which models offer what capacity, and sort out what bit-rate you want to use.
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