# How many hours of music do you have on your iPod or MP3 player? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446 "2010-04-26T20:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/1 "2010-04-26T20:13:24Z")
I found a stack of CD’s that my wife had stuck in a closet in our house from before we were married. I recently went through them and ripped them onto my iTunes and then onto my iPod. After I got done, I noticed that I have about 430 hours of music, or almost 6,800 songs. The majority of this came from my wife’s and my respective CD collections which are all stored in a large dresser that we all also use as a bar. A few items have been purchased off of iTunes. So how big is your digital music collection? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/2 "2010-04-26T20:17:29Z")
Mleh! I messed up the poll description. Option 4 should be “\>250, but less than 500 hours” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/3 "2010-04-26T20:22:27Z")
Well, there’s a difference between “hours of music on computer” and “hours of music on iPhone.” The computer has well over 500 hours of music on it, but I feel no need to load all of it on my phone at any one time. So I voted “more than 250 but less than 500.” ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/4 "2010-04-26T20:23:06Z")
My Music Stats: 6039 items, 21 days (504 hours) 29.95 GB ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/5 "2010-04-26T20:29:13Z")
My 60G iPod has 17 days (408 hours). ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/6 "2010-04-26T20:36:02Z")
No music at all - I only have podcasts on my iPod Touch. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/7 "2010-04-26T21:52:23Z")
Just counting music and music videos and not other things, I have 183.37 GB of music, resulting in a total time of 398:17:39:50. Which as far as I can tell means I have enough music to not have to listen to a repeated song for over a year. My iPod is only a 60GB model of which 27.64 is music, for a total time of just over 12 days. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/8 "2010-04-26T22:17:45Z")
Damn, I think **jack** wins, but I have 30 days, 13 hours and 43 1/2 minutes on mine. 46.38 GB. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/9 "2010-04-26T22:31:35Z")
All I have is CDs. No portable I-anything nor MP3 whoozits. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/10 "2010-04-26T23:00:14Z")
69.6 days. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/11 "2010-04-26T23:18:42Z")
My iPod currently has an even 8,000 songs. I didn’t do that on purpose! ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/12 "2010-04-26T23:26:30Z")
I have 700gb of lossless music on my computer. I have an 8mb iPod and I just covert the songs from Wavpack (lossless) to mp3 on the fly and dump them on my iPod as I want. ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/13 "2010-04-26T23:35:20Z")
My iTunes folder says 186.44GB, which sounds like I beat jack on file size, but it also says I only have enough for 141.2 days, which is considerably less than a year. 53,224 songs. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/14 "2010-04-26T23:43:42Z")
I have 2.3 days of music (~1000 songs). I don’t know. I like music a lot, but I actually use my iPod way more for listening to podcasts. Also, I have the new 5th gen nano with a radio, and I use it for listening to NPR quite a bit now. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-hours-of-music-do-you-have-on-your-ipod-or-mp3-player/537446/15 "2010-04-26T23:45:46Z")
I just got my very first iPod (my first mp3 player of any kind) on Thursday. It was a gift. I’ve only just started to load stuff on it. I have way less than 50 hours on it right now. It’s funny, I used to be really into music when I was in college and grad school – still have hundreds of CDs from that period. I kind of lost interest (started not having time to listen) just about the time that CDs started to give way to mp3.