How much media content can iPods hold?

Answer 1

There are several sizes of iPods. Apple makes no exact claims about how many songs, photos, and videos they can store. It all depends on what you put on the device, and the size of the device's memory.

If you put a 15 gigabyte video "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (unabridged)" on a 16 gigabyte iPod, then you won't be able to store up to 4,000 more songs on it.

A song can be approximately 1 to 20 megabytes in size.

A video can be approximately 1 megabyte to 7 gigabytes in size.

Photos can be from approximately 4 kilobytes to more than 20 megabytes.

Apple say "up to" 4,000 songs, or 14,000 photos, or 16 hours of video will fit on a 16 gigabyte iPod. They will not all fit at the same time.

Your file count will vary according to what you store on your iPod. If you have more media files than will fit on your iPod, then go to iTunes preferences and select 'Store only checked playlists' instead of 'Store All.'