Originally Posted by Ronnie
However, I still think that given the Eclectic nature of most people's listening habits combined with Averaging the content across Thousands of Albums in most people's cases, that the Average per Album should be closer than is shown above

FWIW, I find that about 320Mb is a good average for the vast majority of CD Albums and about 950Mb to 1050Mb for High Res 24/96 Albums

Hi Ronnie, your figure for 96/24 is pretty much spot on with my averages.

96/24 and 88/24 are about the same at ~1000MB
176/24 and 192/24 are twice this which is to be expected.

44/16 FLAC average at ~350MB per album. This is a really mixed bag of old and new and many genres, so, might be a reasonable guide for majority of collections. Is also a large sample size.

44/24 FLAC are mostly decoded HDCD and as expected are larger than 44/16 (~500MB vs ~350MB). They have slightly higher average track count though, but, are still bigger if you factor that in (Suggest ~460MB per album)

48/16...I only have one of these and is the format that Ludwig found Control:PC and Contol:Mac cannot play.

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Rgds,
Nick