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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 i
by 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 agoIt describes the author's conjecture that maybe it was for album art, but actual reason is unknown
- EricE 5y agoSince the album art happens to fit *perfectly* into the space, it's a pretty solid conjecture.
- Melatonic 5y agoI 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 agoApples ideal customer.
- conductr 5y agoI 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 agoBut 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.