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Let me ask you a question - how long would it take you to listen to 68 GB or 128 GB of music? My hypothesis is, you don't actually need 68 GB of music around w
by victorhooi 11y ago
Let me ask you a question - how long would it take you to listen to 68 GB or 128 GB of music?
My hypothesis is, you don't actually need 68 GB of music around with you. In fact, it doesn't confer any meaningful advnatages.
Using http://www.richardfarrar.com/song-capacity-calculator-for-mp3-players/ http://www.richardfarrar.com/song-capacity-calculator-for-mp..., I can see that 64 GB of music at 256 KBps is around 559 hours of music - I really doubt you'd listen to any meaningful portion of that in a month.
See, I used to have a 64 GB MicroSD card, and keep music with me. But then I just ended up using Google Music, and streaming everything. I can pick anything I want, and just listen to it on demand.
Let's be honest, most people can't tell the different quality wise anyhow, so the quality argument is moot.
And it's not like streaming music chews up that much bandwidth.
Doing it this way means I can listen to my music on any device - my desktop, my laptop, my phone, tablet - etc., my playlists are synced, my most recently played lists etc. And I don't need to worry about having to backup my music (I used to do it on my NAS), or worry about syncing up new files.
It's *incredibly convenient - and I can't see any meaningful disadvantages.
- wstrange 11y agoFully Agree. Google Music makes it easy to pin music to the device for the occasional time when you are on a flight and have no wifi. There is simply no need to cache more than 2-3 GB of music on the device.
- tomgg 11y agoWhat if you've resolved to only use free software? That means _Google Music_ is not an option.
- voltagex_ 11y agoSyncThing is a good alternative in that case.
- lucian1900 11y agoThen you're not very likely to use any phone, since at least the baseband will be closed source. Only free software is not practical in the slightest.
- rsync 11y ago"Let me ask you a question - how long would it take you to listen to 68 GB or 128 GB of music?" I think you misunderstood ... Of course I will never listen to 68 GB of music. My entire music collection currently weighs in at 68 GB, and the use case is to have that entire collection with me. I cannot predict what I will want to listen to at any given moment and it would be a long and error-prone process to try to cull it in advance (especially if I have to cull it in half to get below 32 GB). So I will probably listen to 3-4 GB of music in total every year (or whatever) - I just can't predict which 3-4. Since I am above the 64 GB mark, I would need a 128 GB sd card, which are available. Further, I see the LG G4 has a 128 GB capable sd card slot and appears to be a fairly nice phone overall, so I think my dollar votes are going there.