From the article: > If you rip a CD with Apple Music using the Apple AAC Encoder (the default option), it will reserve approximately 5 kB of free space inside

From the article: > If you rip a CD with Apple Music using the Apple AAC Encoder (the default option), it will reserve approximately 5 kB of free space inside each file for this purpose. I was saying that even this is too much, and 500kB is 'way way too much'.