The general consensus is that a 16GB card can hold about 4000 songs. Any space used for apps, photos, or other data will reduce that number accordingly.
i have 726 songs which in 64kbps HE-AAC (aacPlus) format is only 1.92GB.
the Droid will happily accept HE-AAC. 48kbps HE-AAC was confused by many testers as uncompressed audio. i figured i'd go one step farther and write them at 64kbps just to make sure. here is the wiki page on HE-AAC if anybody wants to read up on it: High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
at first i ripped a whole bunch of music at 192kbps standard MP3 on my PS3 and quickly started realizing it didn't sound right. i then decided to give HE-AAC a shot so i ripped a test song using winamp at 64kbps. i could easily tell the difference between the two identical songs written at the different formats when doing a blind test.
i have 726 songs which in 64kbps HE-AAC (aacPlus) format is only 1.92GB.
the Droid will happily accept HE-AAC. 48kbps HE-AAC was confused by many testers as uncompressed audio. i figured i'd go one step farther and write them at 64kbps just to make sure. here is the wiki page on HE-AAC if anybody wants to read up on it: High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
at first i ripped a whole bunch of music at 192kbps standard MP3 on my PS3 and quickly started realizing it didn't sound right. i then decided to give HE-AAC a shot so i ripped a test song using winamp at 64kbps. i could easily tell the difference between the two identical songs written at the different formats when doing a blind test.
Cool, I'll have to look into that. Could potentially save me about 5G of space.
i'd recommend it. i just did some quick math and it looks like one could get about 3,000 songs on roughly 8gb when using 64kbps HE-AAC. in my testing the HE-AAC at 64kbps sounded noticeably better than plain old 192kbps MP3. once again i'll mention i used my PS3 to rip the 192kbps MP3's, maybe the PS3's mp3 decoding is garbage. either way HE-AAC is tons more efficient and sounds CD quality to my ears.
i'd recommend it. i just did some quick math and it looks like one could get about 3,000 songs on roughly 8gb when using 64kbps HE-AAC. in my testing the HE-AAC at 64kbps sounded noticeably better than plain old 192kbps MP3. once again i'll mention i used my PS3 to rip the 192kbps MP3's, maybe the PS3's mp3 decoding is garbage. either way HE-AAC is tons more efficient and sounds CD quality to my ears.
You're using WinAmp to go from MP3 to AAC? How is it now a days?? I used it in the past and really didn't care for it (but that was YEARS ago).