MP3 file sizes

**Ralath** · 06-17-2011, 08:06 AM

What's a typical size for an MP3 file?

I just downloaded a big album of 14 songs and it came out to over 8/9 MB per song... Over 100MB for one album... @_@

Is it quality differences or...?????? I have some songs where I can clearly tell that there of a lower quality than others but I've never seen anything like 8 or 9 MB per song and I'm not sure I would even be able to hear the difference between 8 MB and say... 4 MB.....

**Hessah** · 06-17-2011, 08:39 AM

I think 8-9MB is like normal now...

Sometimes it might not just be the quality?! could be all the lyrics, album cover and all that maybe?

**Ralath** · 06-17-2011, 09:27 AM

But the album cover is separate. That was just a couple of KB for the jpeg image..

The songs are all 8 or 9 MB and the albums is from... 2008?

Destrus · 06-17-2011, 10:13 AM

how long are the songs? i have a 5 minute song that's 12 MB. also have another cd with songs 6-8MB. not sure on the length.

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 06-17-2011, 01:13 PM

yah mostly 7-9mb now.

**Hraesvelg** · 06-17-2011, 04:05 PM

It's the bitrate that makes the difference. Most people can't tell the difference over 128k/s.

**Vasu** · 06-17-2011, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by Hraesvelg

It's the bitrate that makes the difference. Most people can't tell the difference over 128k/s.

Yeah, I honestly couldn't tell the difference between 128 kbps and 256. I only noticed a faint difference between 128 and 96.

atsibo · 06-17-2011, 06:16 PM

flac rules them all!!!

**Hraesvelg** · 06-18-2011, 01:02 AM

Not if you have storage or bandwidth concerns.