Reply #298: A new MP3 player starts pretty cheap. [View All]

[krispos42]

The cost of perhaps 3 albums, perhaps 36 songs.

2GB iPod Shuffle, $46 at Best Buy.


Assuming an MP3 is 1 MB/min, that's 2,000 minutes (33h 20m) available on the player. Assuming the average song is 4 minutes long, that's 500 songs. Assuming each song is $0.99 on iTunes, that's a $46 player filled up with $495 worth of music.


However, for 4x the cash, you can get 8x the capacity... an iPod Nano. So you can fill up a $170 player with $3,960 worth of music.



The ultimate is the iPod Classic. For 5.3x the money ($244) you get 160 GB of storage, or 160,000 minutes, or 2,667 hours, or 111 days worth of music. That's 40,000 songs, or $39,600 worth of music.




Saying I shouldn't buy an iPod Classic for $244 because I can't afford to put a new BMW's worth of music on it seems nonsensical.