A three-minute song would usually be around 80 to 90 bars in total depending on the BPM. Taking into account all types of music, the 'average' song has 108 beats per minute. This then equals around 324 beats for three minutes and 81 beats in a song of this length.
A superior quality (320 kbps) 3-minute song can be around 8–10 MB. Therefore, 64,000 / 8 = 8,000 high quality tracks which can be loaded on your MP3 device. You can double the quantity if you wish to store them in 160 kbps.
The root of the "three-minute" length is likely derived from the original format of 78 rpm-speed phonograph records; at about 3 to 5 minutes per side, it's just long enough for the recording of a complete song. The rules of the Eurovision Song Contest do not permit entries to be longer than three minutes.
Therefore, I think it is better to time your song. A 16-bar cut should be around 30–45 seconds (one minute is maximum) and a 32-bar cut should be around 1:15–1:30 (two minutes is maximum). The most important thing is that the cut feel right and make good musical sense.
A three-minute song would usually be around 80 to 90 bars in total depending on the BPM. Taking into account all types of music, the 'average' song has 108 beats per minute. This then equals around 324 beats for three minutes and 81 beats in a song of this length.
This grouping of four beats is called a bar or measure.
The Most Common Size of a Musical Phrase: 4 Bars
And one of the most common phrase-lengths is four measures. This means that for every four measures, or bars, we find a complete thought. A written sentence usually has a beginning, middle and end, and closes in a punctuation mark.
This is one of the most common misconceptions. Unfortunately, this is not true and there is no bright line rule that says a use is an acceptable use as long as you only use 5, 15, or 30 seconds of a song. Any use of copyrighted material without permission is, according to U.S. copyright law, copyright infringement.
To get radio stations to broadcast their music and get people to buy it, musicians pretty much had to accommodate those time limits. The late 1940s saw the birth of the 45 RPM record: a smaller, cheaper disc made of vinyl that couldn't manage much more than three minutes of music per side.
There's certainly (much) longer songs out there, but it seems like that length is relatively uncommon to music that usually average 4 - 5 minutes in length. 6 minutes is longer than that average, but only slightly and not really that uncommon.
A pretty typical MP3 file will be about 1 MB (Megabyte) per minute of audio. Higher quality audio files will be much larger. So the median length song and an average quality file would be about 3 minutes long, for a 3 MB file. 1 GB (Gigabyte) is 1024 MB.
/ 1GB holds roughly 230 songs (at 128kbps). That's roughly 16 hours of music or 20 albums. / The average 2 hour movie is 1.5GB.
Premium users have multiple options, but individual songs can take up nearly 10 MB of space on your phone. On the low end, they can take up around 3 MB per song. That seriously adds up and could theoretically dampen your experience with your phone due to a lack of free space.
One "bar" refers to an amount of R1,000,000. Among the English speaking communities "Bucks" is commonly used to refer to Rands (South African Currency).
We need an exact metronome mark. We also need to know the meter. 8 bars of 4/4 at quarter note equals 60 would be 32 seconds.
A bar in rap and hip-hop is a unit of measurement that means 4 crotchets (or 4 single beats) worth of lyrics. However, bars can also refer more generally to a rapper's lyrics. A typical rap verse will comprise at least 8 bars, and will often be as long as 16 or 32 bars.
Quadruple time is where we have four main beats in a bar. An example of this would be 4/4 which has four crotchet beats in a bar or 4/2 which has four minim beats in a bar.
Most pop songs are around 80 bars long and are divided into various sections, each of which is usually 8 or multiples of 8 bars long. These sections are generally labelled alphabetically or given names (like 'verse 1′) for convenience. Naming similar sections makes the structure easy to see.
With a BPM of 100 a 4 minute song would be 100 bars.
When played in a 4/4 time signature, a bar has the length of a whole note (i.e. a minim). It's a regular, simple beat pattern widely used in most forms of Western popular music. The time signature of a piece of music indicates how many beats are in each measure, and what note value is equivalent to a beat.
32-Bar and 16-Bar Cuts
You want to make sure the length feels right: 16 bars should be less than a minute and 32 bars less than two minutes.
From this calculation and the previous calculation, you can see that you need 20 songs in an hour. You need to multiply 20 by 9 to get the total number of songs for 9 hours. The answer for 9 hours is 180 3-minute songs.