Originally posted by LikeASong:FLAC increases around a x4.5 factor in size with respect to a 192kbps MP3. A normal 4 minutes song is around 6 MB on mp3@192, and around 25-30 MB on FLAC, so... Your current 14 GB collection would be around 65 GB.
You can also do it measuring the normal CD size when ripped to FLAC (around 400-500 MB) and multiplying that for the number of CDs you want to rip:
450MB · 180 CDs =~ 80 GB.
Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
Going by that calculation, one song would take up 180MB. I'll wait 'til I get a bigger drive then.
Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
Going by that calculation, one song would take up 180MB. I'll wait 'til I get a bigger drive then.
Using them a lot will probably kill the batery 
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
What? No! A normal 14-songs CD uses to be around 400 MB, that means 400/14 ~ 28 MB per song (approx). Where did you take the 180 MB figure from?
Found 2TB internal for €85 euros
Rockbox and Gingerbread beta's for N900, amazing how a 'dead' device is carried by the community. Finally gapless playback! EQ, compressor, stereo width, pitch, timestretching + lots more of DSP possibilities Using them a lot will probably kill the batery
u can get 1TB exteral drives for about 70 odd bucks now, 2TB for $128
Each CD will be 700mb MAX drew so you can do the matys there and work out the most it will take from that. Most are 4-500 though.
Originally posted by drewhiggins:If the song is 24 minutes long and as part of the CD (the full 400MB) then it's going to take up 160 - 180MB for that one song.
Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
Aha, that's right. 24 minutes songs do not appear on my book anyway
Originally posted by LikeASong:Yes, you're right. From what I can remebmer, Echoes clocks near 21 or 22 minutes, and so does Atom Heart Mother... All parts of Crazy Diamond should be around the 20 mark too. But anyway, I wouldn't even consider the option to rip that into FLAC: 160 MB is almost the 10% of my mobile phone's SD card capacity!!! haha