Save space on your MP3 player.
Saving space on your MP3 player lets you add more music without deleting other songs from your player. To save space, you can decrease the amount of digital space each song uses by lowering the quality of the file when you import a song into your computer's MP3 software program from a CD or download.
Instructions
1. Lower the quality of all the new MP3 files you import. Go into your music player software's song import settings. If you use iTunes, you can find this under "Preferences" in the "iTunes" drop-down menu. In Windows Media Player, click on the "Rip Music" tab under the "Options" menu.
Underneath where you select that you want to import songs as MP3 files in iTunes, you will see a menu to select the amount of kbps per import. The lower the number you select, the more space you will save on your MP3 player. In Windows Media Player, you can click and slide to adjust the MB per second to anywhere from "Smallest Size" to "Best Quality." Keep in mind that a lower number also means lower quality of the songs you import.
2. Convert the songs you already have saved on your computer to lower-quality MP3 files.
In iTunes, place a check mark beside the items you want to change over. Click on "Advanced" in the top menu bar and select "Create MP3 Version." This will give you two versions of the same song. Make sure you have the appropriate MP3 settings in your Preferences, or you may not be creating a smaller file.
If you use Windows Media Player to store your songs, try re-ripping your music files from their original CDs for a better-quality conversion, even if you wish to save a lower-quality version of them onto your MP3 player. If you do not have the CD, or the song was downloaded from the internet, download a file converter to run the music files through to produce lower-memory MP3 files to save to your MP3 player.
3. Replace all the music files on your MP3 player with the new versions that do not take up as much space. This is done by selecting all the files on you MP3 player, clicking "Delete," and then dragging the new files over. Wait for the file transfer to complete, and you will see that you have freed up some space on your MP3 player to use in the future.
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