8GB micro sd card

[dr.jigz]

hello everyone in crackberry nation. does anyone know about how many songs will an 8GB micro sd card hold( used in a blackberry bold )???

[Sith_Apprentice]

it depends upon a great many things. if you assume the avg song is 4mb, then each GB holds 250 songs, so you are looking at around 2000 songs.

[amazinglygraceless]

Also, don't forget how the file is encoded. A song with a 96kbps
will be much smaller than one at 360kbps

[dr.jigz]

what is the average mb for music videos?

[amazinglygraceless]

Again that is dependent on a lot of variables. Length of video,
manner in which it was encoded, format of video, etc...

[Sith_Apprentice]

The short answer is that there is no standard. for instance, feature films can range from several GB each to 300mb, depending on compression, quality, etc.

[GapBoyPCS]

Originally Posted by dr.jigz

what is the average mb for music videos?

Again, it depends on how it is encoded, it's length, quality...

Media file sizes aren't a standard.

I just put an 8GB card in my Bold. Prior to that, I had a 4GB card with over 200 songs and 3, 1-hour TV episodes, and some Word and Excel files. The songs can be at least 3 minutes...some are club extended mixes nearing 8 to 10 minutes. My Office files were a few kB to almost a MB.

The best thing you really need to do is just try it out and see.

[Sith_Apprentice]

On my 16gb I have 500 songs, 9 full movies, and several hundred pictures with plenty of room to spare.

[Pete6]

If you take an average of 3.5Mb per song (3 minute song encoded at 128Kbps in mp3 format) then you can at least make a guess. As others have said, your mileage may vary and the only way to know for sure is to load the card up with music and watch how the free space goes down.

Bear in mind also that you will only see 7.6Gb of space once the card is formatted in the phone. This is because the OS uses some space for caching and stuff.

You should therefore get about 2000 songs on an 8Gb card.

I keep my musci orgaized in several folders and this seems to speed up access as the phone does not have to wade through 000s of filenames to find the one song I want. To see how much space is used by any given folder I use Tree Size Free from Welcome to JAM Software and check the individual folder sizes whilst the phone is connected to my PC in Mass Media Mode.

[ArmaK]

Originally Posted by dr.jigz

hello everyone in crackberry nation. does anyone know about how many songs will an 8GB micro sd card hold( used in a blackberry bold )???

On my 8GB micro sd I have 1991 mp3s that are 128kbps (~6.89 GB), The Dark Knight (~669 MB) and Step Brothers (~534 MB).

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