How many hours can 1 gigabytehold?

Answer 1

How many hours of what? A typical - fairly high-quality - MP3 needs about 1 MB per minute, that would give you perhaps 17 hours of music in one GB. It is possible to save sound in about 1/5 of this space, and still have a decent (though not excellent) quality; that would give you 85 hours of sound in 1 GB. Ogg Vorbis uses less space (or offers a higher quality for the same amount of megabytes).

Low-quality movies need about the same space as high-quality MP3, but a high-quality movie may require several MB per minute. Better check a sample of a movie you are interested in (or music, since music also comes in different qualities), and divide the number of megabytes by the number of minutes, to have an estimate.

How many hours of what? A typical - fairly high-quality - MP3 needs about 1 MB per minute, that would give you perhaps 17 hours of music in one GB. It is possible to save sound in about 1/5 of this space, and still have a decent (though not excellent) quality; that would give you 85 hours of sound in 1 GB. Ogg Vorbis uses less space (or offers a higher quality for the same amount of megabytes).

Low-quality movies need about the same space as high-quality MP3, but a high-quality movie may require several MB per minute. Better check a sample of a movie you are interested in (or music, since music also comes in different qualities), and divide the number of megabytes by the number of minutes, to have an estimate.

How many hours of what? A typical - fairly high-quality - MP3 needs about 1 MB per minute, that would give you perhaps 17 hours of music in one GB. It is possible to save sound in about 1/5 of this space, and still have a decent (though not excellent) quality; that would give you 85 hours of sound in 1 GB. Ogg Vorbis uses less space (or offers a higher quality for the same amount of megabytes).

Low-quality movies need about the same space as high-quality MP3, but a high-quality movie may require several MB per minute. Better check a sample of a movie you are interested in (or music, since music also comes in different qualities), and divide the number of megabytes by the number of minutes, to have an estimate.

How many hours of what? A typical - fairly high-quality - MP3 needs about 1 MB per minute, that would give you perhaps 17 hours of music in one GB. It is possible to save sound in about 1/5 of this space, and still have a decent (though not excellent) quality; that would give you 85 hours of sound in 1 GB. Ogg Vorbis uses less space (or offers a higher quality for the same amount of megabytes).

Low-quality movies need about the same space as high-quality MP3, but a high-quality movie may require several MB per minute. Better check a sample of a movie you are interested in (or music, since music also comes in different qualities), and divide the number of megabytes by the number of minutes, to have an estimate.

Answer 2

How many hours of what? A typical - fairly high-quality - MP3 needs about 1 MB per minute, that would give you perhaps 17 hours of music in one GB. It is possible to save sound in about 1/5 of this space, and still have a decent (though not excellent) quality; that would give you 85 hours of sound in 1 GB. Ogg Vorbis uses less space (or offers a higher quality for the same amount of megabytes).

Low-quality movies need about the same space as high-quality MP3, but a high-quality movie may require several MB per minute. Better check a sample of a movie you are interested in (or music, since music also comes in different qualities), and divide the number of megabytes by the number of minutes, to have an estimate.