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How much data on average does iTunes Radio use?

ra4oasis

ra4oasis

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I tend to ride the bus to work a few times a week, and it is roughly a 45 min trip. I'd like to use iTunes Radio occastionally, but I only have 1 gig of shared data between my wife and I (we both have wifi at home, work, parents homes, and so forth). I just don't want to eat up a ton of data and find out AFTER I go over my limit for the month. Has anyone tested to see on average how much is used for a set time frame?

If it helps, I live in a city that has 4G LTE basically all over the place.
 
tymaster50

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get onavo extend, a song is about 4-11mb so depends on how many songs you listen to. 1024 mb in a gb or something. 93/94 songs if it's 11mb, 256 songs if it's 4mb so somewhere in between that
 
TheAppleFairy

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The Clinton Archipelago unfortunately
ra4oasis said:
I tend to ride the bus to work a few times a week, and it is roughly a 45 min trip. I'd like to use iTunes Radio occastionally, but I only have 1 gig of shared data between my wife and I (we both have wifi at home, work, parents homes, and so forth). I just don't want to eat up a ton of data and find out AFTER I go over my limit for the month. Has anyone tested to see on average how much is used for a set time frame?

If it helps, I live in a city that has 4G LTE basically all over the place.
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1 gig shared? how much does your wife use? I think you'd go over your 512mb limit (shared equally) in a few days to a week.
 
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nikicampos

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Got to Settings.app/Cellular scroll down to Music, write down how many MB you have used, start your bus ride and iTunes Radio, after 30 minutes go back to Settings.app/Cellular and see how much you have used, that will give you and idea and see how much iTunes Radio you can use in the future.
 
swordfish5736

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ra4oasis said:
I tend to ride the bus to work a few times a week, and it is roughly a 45 min trip. I'd like to use iTunes Radio occastionally, but I only have 1 gig of shared data between my wife and I (we both have wifi at home, work, parents homes, and so forth). I just don't want to eat up a ton of data and find out AFTER I go over my limit for the month. Has anyone tested to see on average how much is used for a set time frame?

If it helps, I live in a city that has 4G LTE basically all over the place.
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iOS 7 shows you per app cellular usage.

Since a clean install on Jun 30th my music app has used 1.5gb of data. This includes 20 hours of listening just from a recent trip, probably 4-5 hours from commuting, and at least 2 dozen downloads from iTunes Match.
 
Jalopybox

Jalopybox

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The Radio uses about .75/mb per minute of music streaming. So for a 3:30 song, 2.6mb were used. Pretty low bitrate-128mbps. Also, the low frequencies are hacked off.
 
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ra4oasis

ra4oasis

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nikicampos said:
Got to Settings.app/Cellular scroll down to Music, write down how many MB you have used, start your bus ride and iTunes Radio, after 30 minutes go back to Settings.app/Cellular and see how much you have used, that will give you and idea and see how much iTunes Radio you can use in the future.
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Perfect. I didn't know about that. I'll check on the way home today. Thanks!
 
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nikicampos

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ra4oasis said:
Perfect. I didn't know about that. I'll check on the way home today. Thanks!
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You can also reset your statistics every month, when your billing cycle begins, that way you can see how many MB/GB you use a month, and also for any specific app, you can turn off any app that's using way to much MB that you don't really need over cellular.
 
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