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Right im buying a new mp3 player and im thinking about buying the creative zen 8Gb but im confused as to how many songs it holds..... one place i read it says that it hold 8,000songs and then another place says it holds 4,000 songs....Im Just Wondering If Anyone Out There Knows Which One Is Right or How Many The Creative Zen Actually Does Hold ?????!!!

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Generally, each gig holds 500 songs, so 8 x 500 = 4000.

So it holds about 4000, but depending on the format and size of your songs, that could varry.

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This depends on the quality of the audio you like. With high compression and lower quality you could squeeze around 4000 with very high quality mp3 files you should get around 3500.

I think 8000 is more than a bit over the mark.

Also consider that 8 gigs is 8x1024 megabytes but most manufactures will con you out of a few MBs by using the formula 8x1000 MBs (192 MBs less than advertised), plus the operating system and file allocation table will use up some extra MBs as well.

You'll probably find that the player will only have around 7.5 to 7.8 gigs of free usable memory.
Its supposed to be able to hold 2000 songs, but how many it acutally holds depends on the size of your songs