Well I use my iphone, and it's internet and email features a lot, and it needs charging almost daily. If I was to add music playback to that, in between using it as a communications, it would be doing something for virtually every minute of every hour for 10hrs straight. No way would the battery last that long.

As for my iPod. 32gb is nothing. I rip all my music to fairly high quality (at least 320k MP3, but some of it is in lossless WAV format) and at home I have over 500gb of music. 8000 songs on a 32gb iTouch means each of your songs must be about 4mb, or slightly less, each, which isn't a lot for a song. Must be a pretty low bitrate, 128 or lower I'd say...

I downconvert music onto my iPod at 192k as there's no need to go any higher as an iPod and headphones do not convey fidelity higher than this, and even at 192k, I've filled my 60gb iPod with just under 9,000 songs. Ideally I need to change up to a 160gb Classic to get the rest of my music collection onto it.

I don't bother watching movies or TV shows on it - mainly cos I'm driving most of the time, but also, even the iPhone has a tiny screen it's just not worth it. Far better to download a few movie rips to a laptop if I'm going on a plane or train.