How many songs do you have that are approx <1.5mb?

[chrislee765]

Sony NWA3000 Walkman - According to the novatech email can hold 13,000 songs. Well realisticly how many songs do you have that are under approx 1.5mb?

From my googling thats 1min 9secs a song at a low quality rate of 128kbits.

This figure seems very exagerated to me,
Would a member of the novatech team like to tell me if these figures are correct?

[Danno]

13,000 is correct. The MP3 player stores up to 13,000 tracks.

I am guessing 13,000 will be the maximum amount of tracks the players software or the file system supports.

[Lustral]

Remember that the Sony uses Atrac so 128kbps encoded in Atrac3plus will sound way better than mpeg layer 3 :)

just my 2 cents.

[Matt]

In my experience with Sony Walkman times and estimates they tend to use 64kbps as their reference bitrate for size comparison.

I don't have any negative or positive feedback for the ATRAC codec but i've heard it at 64kbps and it isn't too pretty! I guess all the manufacturers try to make the figures work for them somewhere or another.

Straying from the point a little, I have a Sony HD5 and it is serving me well, dropped a few times and no errors, battery life is awesome. I just wish they'd drop their DRM on the player so you can drag and drop songs, or use windows media player rather than sonicstage!