Music Library Storage Calculator
Calculate how many songs fit in your storage.
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Whether you are loading up an MP3 player, filling a phone or archiving a music library, this calculator shows how many songs your storage can hold. Audio format makes a huge difference - a FLAC library takes roughly 5 times the space of the same collection in MP3 128 kbps, so choosing the right format depends on your storage budget and listening quality needs.
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About 7,800 songs at 3.5 minutes average per song. That works out to roughly 455 hours or 19 days of continuous playback.
About 54,600 songs at 3.5 minutes per track. FLAC files average around 19.25 MB per song, so 1TB holds a very large lossless library - over 3,100 hours of music.
128 kbps is roughly 1 MB per minute and sounds acceptable on casual speakers. 320 kbps is 2.4 MB per minute with noticeably better clarity and detail. Most listeners cannot tell 320 kbps from lossless in blind tests.
At MP3 320 kbps: about 82 GB. At FLAC: about 188 GB. At WAV: about 342 GB. MP3 128 kbps compresses the same library down to about 34 GB.
FLAC is lossless and compressed - identical quality to WAV at about half the file size. WAV is uncompressed and slightly faster to decode but wastes storage. FLAC is the standard choice for archiving music libraries.