On Aug 14, 2005, at 12:16, Eddie Hargreaves wrote: > On 8/14/05 7:33 AM, DZ-Jay <dz at caribe.net> wrote: > >> An AIFF file takes roughly 1MB of disk space for each minute of audio > > I think it takes much more than that. By that formula, a 4-minute song > ripped in AIFF format would be 4MB in size. I think it would actually > be in > the hundreds of MBs. > > The 1 minute to 1MB ratio is actually more applicable to MP3 encoding. > I'm so sorry, I missed the zero. its 10MB per minute of song. ALEC takes about 5MB. dZ.