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Ripping from cd reserves 0.05% (about 5kb) for metadata. I can imagine some communication breakdown where someone thought they meant 5% (about 500kb) when speci

Ripping from cd reserves 0.05% (about 5kb) for metadata. I can imagine some communication breakdown where someone thought they meant 5% (about 500kb) when specifying the number 0.05 with a % next to it. You see percentage mixups all the time.

cdot2 5y ago
In the article he describes how the 500kb was originally used for album art but when Apple started storing that separately they didn't remove the space for it in the music files
- anentropic 5y ago
  It describes the author's conjecture that maybe it was for album art, but actual reason is unknown
  - EricE 5y ago
    Since the album art happens to fit *perfectly* into the space, it's a pretty solid conjecture.
    - etchalon 5y ago
      Album Art images are not exactly 500K. The percent mixup conjecture is just as evidence based as the Album Art conjecture.
      - mlyle 5y ago
        Percent mixup doesn't make sense when it's 500k whether it's a short or long track.
- Melatonic 5y ago
  I agree - 0.05% or whatever who cares - but at very large library sizes 500kb could start to add up. Then again I question who in the first place is keeping very large libraries of apple music files......
  - ungamedplayer 5y ago
    Apples ideal customer.
- conductr 5y ago
  I see this type of bloat all over with Apple and coincidentally their devices are, broadly speaking, priced differentiated in large part by disk size and difficult to expand storage. I actually don't believe it's a coincidence at all.
  - brimble 5y ago
    But there are things they've done to save space, with a much larger effect than this, that they could simply have... not done, if that's what they were aiming for. Much more likely they're just sloppy sometimes, like most companies.
thrdbndndn 5y ago
From my understanding 0.05% is just a stat from the files the author collected, not that Apple encoder (which is used encode these CD rips) actually reserve X percent based on file size. It's more likely it reserve a static/absolute value of bytes for every audio file.

cdot2 5y ago

In the article he describes how the 500kb was originally used for album art but when Apple started storing that separately they didn't remove the space for it in the music files

anentropic 5y ago
It describes the author's conjecture that maybe it was for album art, but actual reason is unknown
- EricE 5y ago
  Since the album art happens to fit *perfectly* into the space, it's a pretty solid conjecture.
  - etchalon 5y ago
    Album Art images are not exactly 500K. The percent mixup conjecture is just as evidence based as the Album Art conjecture.
    - mlyle 5y ago
      Percent mixup doesn't make sense when it's 500k whether it's a short or long track.
Melatonic 5y ago
I agree - 0.05% or whatever who cares - but at very large library sizes 500kb could start to add up. Then again I question who in the first place is keeping very large libraries of apple music files......
- ungamedplayer 5y ago
  Apples ideal customer.
conductr 5y ago
I see this type of bloat all over with Apple and coincidentally their devices are, broadly speaking, priced differentiated in large part by disk size and difficult to expand storage. I actually don't believe it's a coincidence at all.
- brimble 5y ago
  But there are things they've done to save space, with a much larger effect than this, that they could simply have... not done, if that's what they were aiming for. Much more likely they're just sloppy sometimes, like most companies.

thrdbndndn 5y ago

From my understanding 0.05% is just a stat from the files the author collected, not that Apple encoder (which is used encode these CD rips) actually reserve X percent based on file size. It's more likely it reserve a static/absolute value of bytes for every audio file.