On Jun 20, 2005, at 8:21 AM,  wrote:

> A 20-gig iPod can probably hold all the bird song recordings now  
> available on CD -- we were in South Africa and birded with a local  
> friend for a day -- his iPod had 1000s of bird songs (Africa, Asia,  
> Europe) -- all arranged taxonomically -- plus a all his favorite  
> "tunes" plus names, addresses and phone numbers of all his girl  
> friends <gr>!
>
> In Bhutan we used a 256 mb flashcard MP3 player and even it held 3  
> CDs worth of bird songs with room to spare...
>
> Gail Mackiernan
> Colesville, MD
>
>
>
>> I notice that these ipods come in different sizes.  How big does  
>> it have to be
>> to hold the Stokes Bird song cds for example?  <snip>
>

I have a Ipod mini as well. I've stored all three cds of Lang Elliot  
and Donald and Lillian Stokes's Eastern Bird Songs. This seems to be  
the best set because they come ID3 tagged. Meaning that they already  
come titled, all you have to do is quickly create albums like  
warblers, owls etc.