How to delete files from MP3 flash player?

[Surfinwahine]

Got a really inexpensive player which works ok but:

~the 1 GB only held 58 songs! Whassup with that?! (wav format)
~the instructions were no use at all; website equally useless; customer support nonexistent

Soooo...

~How can I delete the songs I have on the flash player?
~Would saving them in an MP3 format allow me the appr. 200 songs I expected to be able to save with 1 GB memory?

All suggestions and advice are welcome, as always. :happy:

Thanks in advance,

Surfinwahine

[smurfy]

Hi there.
Yes, most definitely, converting the files from raw WAV audio to compressed MP3 files will enable you to have more songs on the player. How many depends greatly on the setting you select when converting to MP3 - various bit rates are possible at varying levels of quality loss.
I generally use a minimum of 192Kbits when ripping my own. The lower the bitrate, the smaller the file and the more songs will fit, at the cost of audio quality. 128Kbits is the lowest you should go.

When you connect the player to your PC (I assume via a USB cable) the flash drive should appear in Windows Explorer/My Computer as a "Removable disk" and you can drag and drop or delete like any other file in Windows.

[Surfinwahine]

Thanks, smurfy! The bitrate may be part of the problem as well; I try to rip my tunes at 192 also. It will be interesting to hear the difference when I "redo" the songs to fit more on this player.

I wonder, also, at what bitrate all the "Big Leaguers" (ie, iPod) download the music at to claim such large song storage? If anyone has some guesses, I'd love to know!

Thanks again!

Surfinwahine

[oracle128]

I wonder, also, at what bitrate all the "Big Leaguers" (ie, iPod) download the music at to claim such large song storage? If anyone has some guesses, I'd love to know!
The maximum number of songs a player can hold can be pretty much any number the manufacturer wants to tell you about - considering a file can be encoded in a number of formats, different bitrates/quality, and can be of varying length. And of course, because of the way compression algorithms work, different sounds can vary the compressed size again - a 4 minute song with various instruments at 128kbit will end up much larger than 4 minutes of a single tone at 128kbit. The iPod Nano's claim of 2000 songs, for instance, assumes 4 minutes per song, 128kbit of AAC-encoded audio. You can usually find such info in the fine print.