File size in Sonicstage

[geezawolf]

I've imported a whole load of songs in to SS and want to know what I can fit on to my 1GB player. The trouble is, it tells me the total length of all the songs, but not the total file size. I want to know what I can fit on my player. The only way I can do it is to click on each track individually and add up the file sizes which is ridiculous. Any ideas?

[LuLu]

I've imported a whole load of songs in to SS and want to know what I can fit on to my 1GB player. The trouble is, it tells me the total length of all the songs, but not the total file size. I want to know what I can fit on my player. The only way I can do it is to click on each track individually and add up the file sizes which is ridiculous. Any ideas?

Look at the top right hand corner (see pic below) in SS where you can read how much is currently available on your unit.

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[geezawolf]

Is that it? Is that the only way?!!! Typical crappy Sony/Sonicstage. Why they can't just let you see what you're doing before you start transferring is beyond me. SOOOO wish I'd spent a few eztra quid and bought an ipod.

[cool_rock]

hi man its simple u right click the song properties and chhek its size and see how much length u can transfer. well it depends on the length of the songs. or u can simply chek my computer and ur mp3 player how much space left whats the big deal what else u want

[Zizone_]

When you just start to transfer, you will see red bar in addition to green bar from Lulu's picture. The red bar indicates estimated file size on the player while the green bar represents file that is transferred.

[geezawolf]

hi man its simple u right click the song properties and chhek its size and see how much length u can transfer. well it depends on the length of the songs. or u can simply chek my computer and ur mp3 player how much space left whats the big deal what else u want

The big deal, cool_rock, is that I want to select all the files I wants to transfer and find out what the total size of all the files are so that I know if I've got enogh space on my player for them before I transfer them. That's pretty much what I've already said.

[Richard]

The big deal, cool_rock, is that I want to select all the files I wants to transfer and find out what the total size of all the files are so that I know if I've got enogh space on my player for them before I transfer them. That's pretty much what I've already said.

If you have ripped the files from a CD just go the folder in Windows Explorer that contains your SS Library (by default C:\Documents And Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sony\Sonic Stage\Packages - I think), find the sub folder that represents the album in question and view the properties of the folder in explorer to get the total size.

If the tracks are spread across multiple albums again go the the folder that holds your SS library and from the top level search for *.oma and / or *.mp3 to produce a list of all music files in the library. Select the tracks you wish using Ctrl to select multiple tracks in the search results window and right click and choose properties or press Alt-enter to see the total size for all tracks selected.

[jonny mac]

I used to use this feature but for some reason Sony removed it from SS. The only thing to do is to use the bitrate & album/track length to calculate the aproximate space instead. As a rule of thumb, a 128kbps track uses 1MB per minute; therefore a 4 minute track at 128kbps (or 132, close enough) is 4 minutes. Obviously at 256kbps the same track would occupy 8 MB of space & so forth.

The option to transfer a CD to an MD unit at the same time as ripping it to the library was also removed from SS, some time ago. That was a handy feature too.