How much music is enough music for an mp3 player?

A friend of mine recently bought a 120GB iPod Classic, and it got me thinking, thats a hell of a lot of storage space for music, how much space is ‘enough’ space?

Right, apparently, a 120GB player will hold 30,000 songs, assuming these are all 4 minutes long, thats 2000 hours, or 83.3 days worth of constant music.

Ok, taking into account you sleep about 7 hours every night, and spend 2 hours eating, and taking care of essential tasks, that leaves 14 hours in the day. Take those 14 hours and subtract the amount of time you spend talking and socialising per day (ie not listening to music), lets say 2 hours, you are left with an absolute maximum of 12 hours per day for music. This bumps up the time for your iPod Classic to run out of new songs to 166.6 days.

An average person will usually listen to a few songs a few times over again, and will also skip some other songs, assuming you like about a half your music collection to listen to twice and a further on fifth to listen to 4 times, the time it would take for you to become bored of your music is,

(166.6*24*60) + (83.3*24*60) + (33.32*24*60*3) = 503798 minutes. Which equals a whopping 350 days. Of. Solid. Music. 12 hours per day. Every day.

I listen to music for probably on average 4 hours per day. Which would ramp up that total to about 3 YEARS until my 120GB collection would need replacing. And this is assuming you buy and replace zero songs over that length of time.

So.. all you HDD fanboys and solid state haters out there, still think you NEED your massive capacity disks?

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