Can anyone help/shed light on how to save music files so that I can achieve anywhere near the advertised capability of most MP3/HDD storage devices? According to sales blurb (from Dixons, Argos etc) a 1Gb player will store approximately 320 tracks (at 128kbps rate, each approx 4 mins long) if saved as MP3 or 640 tracks if saved as WMA. Sounds great, only the tracks that I have saved through Windows Media Player at 128kbps and therefore as WMA files roughly equate to 1mb = 1 minute of playing time. Therefore 1Gb will equal approx 320 x 3min tracks; nowhere near the 640 x 4min tracks. Am I doing something wrong which is painfully obvious, or are the manufacturers claims on the optimistic side? Need to try to sort this out before spending loads of money on a player that is too small or too powerful for our needs. Thanks

so what your saying (apart from 3 vs 4 mins) is you can indeed store 320 tracks at 128kbps. Which is as specified! It doesn't matter whether you rip to MP3 or WMA, if it's 128kbps you'll get 320 tracks on it. The point is that 64kbps WMA is supposed to sound the same as 128kbps MP3, so if you rip to 64kbps WMA you'll get 640 tracks on it. (whether 64kbps WMA actually does sound as good as 128kbps MP3 is debatable, but that's another story)