[570416]

Hi i have just upgraded to a SEW850i and would like to know roughly how many songs you would expect to save on the memory stick. I got a 1g free with the phone.
Thanks

[S-max]

You probably get around 200 to 230 if you remove the ones already on the stick and have a 128k bit rate for each song. The lower bit rate the more song you can get on but the quality is not as good.

S-Max

[570416]

Thank you for that. The bumf that comes with the phone says it will hold 1000 songs but i guess that means using a much bigger card.
K

[chrisjr]

How long is a piece of string. The number of songs you can store is dependent on a number of factors. One of which being the length of the songs themselves obviously.

The other is the bitrate used. A CD has a bitrate of 1.4Mb/s approx. This equates to about 10MB of storage per minute, ie 100 minutes on a 1GB memory stick. A mp3 file encoded to 128kb/s uses about 1MB of storage per minute, or about 1000 minutes for your memory stick.

If you are a fan of 70s prog rock that probably equates to about three tracks But for an average pop song of say 4minutes duration that means about 250 songs on a 1GB stick.

To get 1000 3 to 4 minute pop songs songs on a 1GB stick you would need to encode at something like 32kb/s which I would not inflict on my worst enemy (I'm sure it contravenes the Geneva Convention on torture )