[citation][nom]bobbobato[/nom]@jacobdrj The storage space probably isn't expanding because most people don't have music collections larger than about 50GB, so there's much of a market for such large devices. Eventually as the price per GB goes down we certainly will see mp3s with huge storage, but not yet.Another thing to consider is that if somebody has a music collection in the 100s of GBs it probably means that most of their music was gotten illegally, because most people simply don't have the money for it - c'mon, think about it. Lets say that 100 GB is about 20,000 songs. On iTunes, that would cost 15,000-20,000$! A mp3 device with 200+ GBs would seem to enable this kind of 'criminality'.[/citation]
While I understand that that is the impression, I do not believe that this is the case. In fact, it is quite the opposite:
PMPs are not just for music. They are also for videos. Videos are becoming a dominant part of PMPs like Apple's iPod 5th Gen and the Zune HD. It was one of their killer features.
And for audiophiles, the reason to have a large capacity is for higher quality audio, for higher quality PMPs... FLAC takes up a lot of space, and people who use FLAC tend to be (in my experience) people who own CDs and are looking for a more convenient way to enjoy their whole collection.
I wanted to convert all of my music into FLAC from my CDs, and TBH, I have no reason to do this, as far as portable media is concerned, because there is no player on earth right now that will give me enough space to enjoy all my music at maximum quality...