MP3 file sizes
 

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.....

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?

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?

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.

yah mostly 7-9mb now.

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.

flac rules them all!!!

Not if you have storage or bandwidth concerns.