Downloading Music smaller than 4 MB a song

smithj7 · 04-04-06, 03:45 PM

Im a newbie and just recently recieved a dell axim x50 and love it. I run with my mp3 player and I wanted to try to use my axim as an mp3 player but when I go to download the song it will only download like 50 songs to a 256 mb card and my 256 mb mp3 player i have over 100 songs on it and still have room. Is there any way to shrink the size of the songs or put them in another format so that they dont take up soooo much space on my 256 cf card? Thanks

Craig

Villain · 04-04-06, 03:55 PM

You will want to create a folder on the Memory Card. There's a limit to the number of files you have on the root of the memory card, but once you create a folder, that limit is removed.

Give that a shot, and that should help.

srf506 · 04-04-06, 04:01 PM

I think its a case of him physically using up the 256mb at 4meg per song ($x50 = 200meg + overhead = >256meg. He's looking for a way to reduce the size of the song files physically. What level of fidelity are you ripping the songs at? If you're using a very high level (>128kps) than you can reduce it to that figure or even a little lower, like 96kps, w/o too much loss of quality and save some space. Most of my songs are recoreded at 128kps and they seem to be about 2.5 t9o 3.5 meg per song. Hope that helps and is the answer you were looking for.

gfisch · 04-04-06, 09:06 PM

You can always make the mp3s lower quality and they will be smaller. I wouldnt go below 128kbps though or you will notice it, especially if you have decent headphones or good external speakers.

04-04-06, 09:40 PM

Convert them to OGG VORBIS (.ogg), you will save roughly 50% space.

ebilflindas · 04-04-06, 10:29 PM

You wanna go running with your Ax?!? That is surely an invitation to the blues!

smithj7 · 04-05-06, 01:07 AM

Well i run them on a low quality but I mainly want to convert them to another format so they will be even smaller. I dont know how to convert to ogg as kerunt says but I guess i will find out. I would appreciate any other suggestions on how to maximize the # of songs on my Axim. Thanks

Craig

jnev · 04-05-06, 01:22 AM

why not just buy a bigger CF card? they're not that expensive, $50 can get you a 1GB card or more...

04-05-06, 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by smithj7

I dont know how to convert to ogg as kerunt says but I guess i will find out.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&sa...G=Search&meta=

Try a few programs ;).

I had a good, simple one about a year back, but I can't remember the name right now. I just know I got it from download.com.

In any program, you will need to do pretty much the same thing. Select your MP3 files, choose to convert them to OGG VORBIS (.ogg) and hit start ;). After that, copy them over to your flash card, and play them with GS Player. A few other players support OGG too, but I never used anything other than GS Player, so I can't comment on that.

Gigi · 04-05-06, 07:01 AM

If you have the original CDs to your music, it's best to convert to OGG from those, rather than from the mp3 files. Quality will be better for the equivalent bitrate. :approve:

Moved to Multimedia.

PabloPowell · 04-05-06, 10:59 AM

IMHO, The problem with re-compressing mp3 files after they have already been compressed once is that you are going to seriously degrade the quality. It doesn't matter if you use OGG or MP3.

Your best bet is to just buy a bigger memory card. I got a 1gb SD card for $55. You can probably find them cheaper than that.

Eric12341 · 04-05-06, 09:17 PM

I usually convert to .wav then I increase the samplerate to 48khz then I convert back to mp3 @192kbps as that is cd quality then I convert to wma @64kbps which is cd quality and these run for no more than 2.5mb a song