Comments on: Song Capacity Calculator for MP3 Players

By: Richard Farrar

Richard Farrar — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:35:26 +0000

You are most welcome, glad to be of assistance.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:27:29 +0000

That’s working fine now Richard thanks. I was considering buying a sony voice recorder to record a three day convention. Because it had only internal memory of 2GB, I was keen to see if I could record the whole event without having to ‘empty’ it to a computer. It is set to record at 192 kbps so using your calculator I see it will definitely cover 24 hours at that rate. – thanks –

and thanks for the speedy reply too.

By: Richard Farrar

Richard Farrar — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:58:42 +0000

Hi Brendan, You hadn’t missed anything. Unfortunately a WordPress update seemed to have knocked out the Javascript. I think I’ve fixed it now if you’d like to give it another go. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Richard

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:54:23 +0000

Since everyone is so happy with this calculator, I must be missing something. I’ve tried the MP3 Song Calculator on this page in both chrome and firefox and the resultant greyed out firgures never change whether I use the smallest or the greatest bit rate or change the storage. It is always 2.19, 3.1, 39.

What have I missed? I was looking for a ‘submit’ or ‘calculate’ button but could not see one on the form so I assumed it would automatically recalculate on a change to the bit rate or storage capacity. But no change?????

By: Richard Farrar

Richard Farrar — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:12:43 +0000

Hi, Unfortunately this one is a little out of my depth; my networking programming experience is quite limited. Time to try Google search perhaps? Good luck with your project.

By: gm

gm — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:35:51 +0000

Hi Richard,

Could you help me about Computer Networking.
I have to do a project on this subject which has to do Developing the chat with multicast, this project should realize the program c #. While my colleagues in other group have to Develop client program that communicate with the server in C #. NET UDP. In the end I need to link the chat with my colleague’s server.
best regards

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:47:54 +0000

You’re welcome, glad to be of assistance.

By: gm

gm — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:59:00 +0000

File Sizes:
@128kbps = 128,000 x 270 = 34,560,000 bits = 4MB (8 bits per byte)

Download Times @ 56kbps:
34,560,000 / 56, 000 = 617 seconds = 10 min 17 sec
this is good
thnx man

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:25:46 +0000

Hope this answers your questions:

4 min 30 sec = (4 x 60) + 30 = 270 seconds

File Sizes:
@128kbps = 128,000 x 270 = 34,560,000 bits = 4MB (8 bits per byte)
@192kbps = 192,000 x 270 = 51,840,000 bits = 6MB
@320kbps = 320,000 x 270 = 86,400,000 bits = 10MB

Download Times @ 56kbps:
34,560,000 / 56, 000 = 617 seconds = 10 min 17 sec
51,840,000 / 56, 000 = 925 seconds = 15 min 25 sec
86,400,000 / 56, 000 = 1,542 seconds = 25 min 43 sec

By: gm

gm — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:44:24 +0000

if you can help me with those information??
100–160 kbit/s – Standard Bitrate quality;
192 kbit/s is the highest level supported by most MP3
224–320 kbit/s – VBR to highest MP3 quality