How many gigabytes for 3500 songs?

I know it all depends on the length of the songs and everything, I have some long songs and some short ones and average ones. But my itunes has about 3500 total and my iphone is 16g so it won't take all the music, let alone my apps (which i don't have very much of). I'm thinking of getting an ipod with enough memory for 3500 songs and maybe more room for more songs in the future, is a 16g ipod too small of memory?

9, 000, 400, 300, 120

The size of each audio file also depends on the file type. If it's MP3, it also depends on the bitrate. What you can do is select your music folder and view the properties of it to see how large it is on your hard disk.

I don't know

The one other answer saying that the file size of each mp3 will determine if it is large enough is correct. Based on my quick calculations, no it will not be large enough for all of your songs plus more songs to come. I guessed that the average size of all your songs will be about 6 MB in size (some can be low bit rate ones that are like 3 MB but then some could be really long concert songs that come out to like 8 MB) so that there would be ample room even if the guess was too big. Anyways it came out that you would need at least 20 GB worth of storage for all the songs and stuff your were talking about. Hope this helped.

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