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why? for those who know how big a song is, you can easily translate. for those who have no idea but roughly know how many songs their music players can hold it is a far more meaningful measure than units of 'bit'

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Are we talking 2-minute punk songs, 4-minute pop songs, or 20-minute jazz-prog odysseys? And is this CD quality wav, or 128 kbps mp3?

4 minutes. A typical length for a song.

And for those like me, who don't know either of those things, can you please translate into bytes?

about 5 megs.

So 130TB.

Was it really easier for them to say 26 million songs?

Not easier, just more meaningful to more people.

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