iPhone music

[parklife1987]

Probably a dumb question but I have 21gb of music on my itunes. I transferred all of it onto my iphone and its taking up over 30gb of space! Does anyone know why its done this?

Iv only moved music, no podcasts or anything.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[emjaycee18]

The only thing that I could think of is album art.

 

[GeorgieAcevedo]

The only thing that I could think of is album art.

Really.. 9GB+ of album art sounds so unlikely. Unless he took all the album pics with a Nikon without resizing.

 

[eclipse01]

perhaps it did some converting to AAC?

 

[parklife1987]

Really.. 9GB+ of album art sounds so unlikely. Unless he took all the album pics with a Nikon without resizing.

lol nope.

Seems odd, plugged it into my work computer today which told me I was using 27gb for music. Its a little better but not ideal

 

[Sunsean]

That is odd - that the amount of memory used by music would change without the library changing...and of course, the initial discrepancy as well. Is it possible you may have double copied/transferred a part of your library? Like maybe some albums/artists are on your phone twice?

 

[emjaycee18]

Really.. 9GB+ of album art sounds so unlikely. Unless he took all the album pics with a Nikon without resizing.

Just did the math out and you're right. A average album art file should be around ~30kb. For a library that large it should take up more than ~100mb.

 

[pooleman]

Do any of your albums come with music videos? Just a few videos will take up a lot of space.