Comments on: 10 Ways to Clean Up, Organize And Save Space On Your Hard Drive http://www.watchingthenet.com/10-ways-to-clean-up-organize-and-save-space-on-your-hard-drive.html Computer - Internet - Technology Tips And Tutorials Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:38:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mosh http://www.watchingthenet.com/10-ways-to-clean-up-organize-and-save-space-on-your-hard-drive.html#comment-17117 Mosh Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:48:52 +0000 http://www.watchingthenet.com/?p=1288#comment-17117 One other method is to reduce the "quality" of your MP3s. Unless you're running a high-end sound system then 128kbps is fine as far as quality goes. I find a lot of the MP3s I download are 160 to 256kbps. The filesize of each of these can be as much as halved by running a conversion program without any audible change in quality. By all means back up the originals on an external drive as you suggest, but knock the quality of the ones you keep on your hard drive down and see (listen?) if you can tell the difference. Given the number of MP3s a lot of people have nowadays, you can save a huge amount of drive space this way. Ideal for the traveller (like myself) as my laptop goes everywhere with me. The more I can cram onto it, the better! One other method is to reduce the "quality" of your MP3s. Unless you're running a high-end sound system then 128kbps is fine as far as quality goes. I find a lot of the MP3s I download are 160 to 256kbps. The filesize of each of these can be as much as halved by running a conversion program without any audible change in quality.

By all means back up the originals on an external drive as you suggest, but knock the quality of the ones you keep on your hard drive down and see (listen?) if you can tell the difference.

Given the number of MP3s a lot of people have nowadays, you can save a huge amount of drive space this way. Ideal for the traveller (like myself) as my laptop goes everywhere with me. The more I can cram onto it, the better!

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