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64GB USB Flash Drive

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brucine Posted messages 24691 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello. How much music can you fit on a 64GB USB flash drive? Thank you for your responses.

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brucine Posted messages 24691 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 149
 

Hello,

The question doesn't make sense.

We don't know the format of these files, the default or imposed cluster size on the drive depending on its format type, whether we're saving songs or symphonies.

In MP3, a song can roughly take up between 3-4 to 7 MB without it being in a linear proportion to a duration that is also roughly between 3 to 5 minutes.

To stay with the rough estimate, we can only have a general idea.
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Super.Mario Posted messages 583 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   251
 

Hello

It depends on the "format" of your music.
Indeed, the different formats MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WAV (PCM), and others... use (or not) compression modes or can be LossLess, or even "raw" like PCM, and the greater the compression, the more it leads to a loss of quality.

For example, in Wav, a sound lasting 1 minute occupies between 644KB and 27MB, depending on the sampling frequency, the type of sound (mono or stereo), and the number of bits used for sampling (8 or 16 bits).

You can read about this Different formats: wav, flac, mp3...

See you later
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fabul Posted messages 42084 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   6 054
 

Good evening,

It is also necessary that the 64GB is not a fake.

Before filling it with music, format it and test it with H2testw if you are not certain of the quality.

https://www.commentcamarche.net/telecharger/utilitaires/11535-h2testw/
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Pierr10 Posted messages 13815 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   5 835
 

Hello,

While examining my own MP3 files, I see that:

1 MB of music is listened to in 0.83 min (approximately 50 s). (It's often said: 1 min for 1 MB)

We will assume that your 64 GB stick has a real storage capacity of 57 GB once formatted. (Values found on the Internet)

We thus arrive at a duration of:

57000 * 0.83 = 47310 min or approximately 788 h.

This amounts to nearly 33 days of continuous listening!

Personally, I find that using a 64 GB stick to store music is pointless:

  • The number of files will be enormous, and it will be really tedious to navigate through them.
  • USB sticks are not reliable storage media (in fact, it's a lottery). So putting all your music on a single stick isn't really wise.

It's better to use smaller capacity sticks (8 or 16 GB). A 64 GB stick would be much more useful for storing videos.

What is well conceived is clearly stated,
And the words to say it come easily.
(Boileau)
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brucine Posted messages 24691 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 149
 

Hello,

You don't need the internet to know the binary capacity of a decimal key; you just have to divide by 1024 the number of times required, the result is more likely close to 59.4 GB but it doesn't matter.

We often run into a problem with these types of keys because often the destination reader only wants to talk about FAT32, and then you have to use a third-party utility for formatting.

I have a very old 4 GB one (the content is backed up elsewhere) that I only use during long drives and indeed its size is more than sufficient to have enough different songs on it.

Even for such a small key and in the context of such use, we often run into another issue because the car reader will limit the number of files at the root, forcing you to sort them into folders.

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