Loseless Rips

Gavin,

It all depends on a few factors.

a) the length of the album in question.
b) the "density" of the music to be compressed

250-400MB is a good rule of thumb for most full length albums.

Of course, something like Meshuggah, Slayer, or Naked City will compress far less than Andreas Segovia or Nick Drake.

It is a variable codec like VBR MP3s. It only uses what it needs. Unlike CBR MP3s or WAV.

hope that helps,
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Thanks PC

I realised that there'd be plenty of variation.

In summary though, a 32GB iPod touch or iPhone could hold 50-100 albums-worth ripped as loseless.

Hmmm, could be enough. Maybe need to work out whether thats enough of a proportion of the albums I play regularly (rather than own!)

Gavin

quote:

I'm trying to figure out whether I need to buy an iPod Classic or whether a smaller iTouch/iPhone would be able to handle enough albums.

It's a difficult choice.
From my experience if you just want a device to play and store music it's the iPod classic every time in terms of cost and capacity.
Since getting an iPhone I rarely use my Classic now — but miss the fact I could carry so much on it instead of having to re-connect to the computer every time I wanted to change content.
If the iPhone hit 64GB there'd be no contest. Which I'm sure it will soon!
PS: For comparison, I have an 8GB iPhone (stupid choice, should have gone for 16GB at the time but will change when contract's up) and have 22 albums in lossless on it.
IMHO I have found whatever capacity you go for — you always want more until you hit the spot where you're not filling it!
Remember the iPhone and ITouch take some of their capacity away from you for other parts of their functionality.
In the end, your choice for your priorities.