Media Library Update - Size of Download

[Guest]

I updated around 200 songs from around 40 albums. Standard stuff, all went OK
- album art included.

My ISP usage guage for this operation shows as around 100MB.

Does this sound right? Seems pretty high too me but maybe that's normal?

Tried to check the size of the album art image files but couldn't find them...

Thanks

 

[Guest]

The average MP3/wma audio file including album art is around 3MB,
multiply that by 200 = 600MB, figure from there.

WMP Album Art - Viewing and Correcting local files
http://msmvps.com/thinice/archive/2004/11/14/19085.aspx

 

[Guest]

Many thanks Byte,

I wasn't downloading the files - these came from my CDs. Just getting the
metadata - ie track, artist and album name etc - via the automatic update
process when I go online. Presumed this would be a few kbs per song - it's
only text. (As opposed to 500 kb per song)

Found the pictures - thank you kindly - but they are small, around 8 KB -
so no culprit there.

Assistance appreciated.