The new chip that will let an iPod store 500,000 songs

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[deleted][deleted]luxury_boxOP
Apr 11, 2008, 02:18 PM

Mobile phones, iPods and other consumer devices may soon be able to hold a hundred times more information than they do at present thanks to a breakthrough in storage technology.

Scientists at IBM say they have developed a new type of digital storage which would enable a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs - or 3,500 films - and cost far less to produce.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3728060.ece

ILPhinFan88ILPhinFan88luxury_box
Apr 11, 2008, 02:38 PM

Now they just need to rig to run a car

BuckeyeKingBuckeyeKingNew Member
Apr 12, 2008, 03:13 AM

I'm only at 500 songs :(

DonShula84DonShula84moderator
Apr 12, 2008, 03:26 AM

"BuckeyeKing wrote:

I'm only at 500 songs :(

lol, download more music imo. :up:

DesidesDesidesforum_veteran
Apr 12, 2008, 03:38 AM

"DonShula84 wrote:

lol, download more music imo. :up:

Nah, he's good. Most people only put about 100 songs on their iPod and use the shuffle function exclusively.

I don't get people who put their entire music libraries on their players. Why would you want to sort through all that music? I just create a smart playlist tier that randomly selects songs from my library and sync with that playlist. I also have a playlist of about 200 songs that I select myself.

I swear, when I get my iPhone, most of that storage space will go towards movies and pictures taken with the camera.

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DonShula84DonShula84moderator
Apr 12, 2008, 03:44 AM

"Desides wrote:

Nah, he's good. Most people only put about 100 songs on their iPod and use the shuffle function exclusively.

I don't get people who put their entire music libraries on their players. Why would you want to sort through all that music? I just create a smart playlist tier that randomly selects songs from my library and sync with that playlist. I also have a playlist of about 200 songs that I select myself.

I swear, when I get my iPhone, most of that storage space will go towards movies and pictures taken with the camera.

I keep everything on my Ipod because I never know what I'll be in the mood for. Then i make a few playlists of about 100 or so songs of different genres. Cant go wrong with having too much music to choose from :up:

Jt0323Jt0323moderator
Apr 12, 2008, 03:55 AM

"DonShula84 wrote:

I keep everything on my Ipod because I never know what I'll be in the mood for. Then i make a few playlists of about 100 or so songs of different genres. Cant go wrong with having too much music to choose from :up:

I agree, some times im in the mood for songs like metallica type songs, and sometimes in the mood for Beatles type of songs or eddie vedder type and some times i need my Eminem rap type fix, i like having a various of types of music to listen to.

ALalen1New Member
Apr 12, 2008, 01:18 PM

Does anyone seriously have 500.000 songs? That would be insane lol. I have about 650 on my ipod. I listen to about 15 of the songs.

BuckeyeKingBuckeyeKingNew Member
Apr 12, 2008, 02:18 PM

"DonShula84 wrote:

lol, download more music imo. :up:

Could download some oldies.

Boik14Boik14subscriber
Apr 12, 2008, 10:19 PM

"alen1 wrote:

Does anyone seriously have 500.000 songs? That would be insane lol. I have about 650 on my ipod. I listen to about 15 of the songs.

LOL, I can probably get there. Im at 5000 songs now and still have about 200 more CD's to burn on to it. Given time, ill probably get there by the time im 50.... :yes:

ALalen1New Member
Apr 12, 2008, 10:27 PM

"Boik14 wrote:

LOL, I can probably get there. Im at 5000 songs now and still have about 200 more CD's to burn on to it. Given time, ill probably get there by the time im 50.... :yes:

Lol 5,000 is a lot. I use limewire instead of CD's lol.

Jt0323Jt0323moderator
Apr 12, 2008, 11:39 PM

I will say lately ive been buying a lot of my songs, i like to buy from artist i support, also i like how itunes has exclusive itunes albums, like live from soho, the linkin park cd,

Boik14Boik14subscriber
Apr 15, 2008, 01:27 AM

"alen1 wrote:

Lol 5,000 is a lot. I use limewire instead of CD's lol.

Ya, Ive been using that since college. Problem is that in the time before that I accumulated about 600 cd's since my mom used to get them on the cheap. At some point ill ebay a lot of them real cheap and get what I can from them. :yes:

High DefinitionHigh DefinitionNew Member
Apr 15, 2008, 04:07 AM

My iPhone is 8GB and I've got about 20-25 albums and 4-5 movies on there.

Then, I've got an 80GB iPod with over 10,000 songs. (used mostly for car)

Man, I couldn't imagine having more space than what's on my iPod Classic.

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FinSaneFinSaneforum_veteran
Apr 15, 2008, 10:41 PM

you can always just get a Zune and put whole albums on there.

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