on my original comp i had 4-5k...it crashed on a virus and died. they were from the original free napster. i also had about 100 full legnth movies. my second comp has 3000 .... not realy mine its my roomates we share the comp. he is now moveing i now have about 12 songs on a crapy built from spare parts comp. on my nomad i have 2500 songs mostly from my cds. i wish i had all the previous songs.