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Your approach to smartphone music storage?

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Posted on April 30, 2016 at 06:47:20

hesson11
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Posts: 2280
Location: Florida
Joined: December 8, 2005

It seems that smartphones are being used more and more as music sources by serious audiophiles, whether it's for casual or serious listening. I'm wondering what strategies others use for storing music on their devices.

For example, I've got about 65 GB of ALAC files on my MacBook Pro. My iPhone has something like 16 GB of total storage space. I wouldn't mind having some music on my phone, at least for casual listening, and I'm trying to understand how others approach this.

Do you, for instance, pick-and-choose a relatively few lossless files for your phone? Or do you include more files on your phone as smaller AAC, MP3, etc. files? Or do you use another approach, i.e., cloud storage, streaming, etc.?

I'm not so much looking for specific advice on what to do in my case. I'm really looking for some perspective on what all of you do.

Any thoughts will be appreciated. THANKS.
-Bob

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hesson11

15:40:41 05/01/16

RE: Your approach to smartphone music storage?

johnvb

18:43:37 04/30/16

Onkyo hires player

PaulN

13:37:20 04/30/16

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hesson11

15:40:41 05/01/16

RE: Your approach to smartphone music storage?

johnvb

18:43:37 04/30/16

Onkyo hires player

PaulN

13:37:20 04/30/16

RE: Your approach to smartphone music storage?

AbeCollins

12:01:03 04/30/16

Simply maintain a goodly subset of content

E-Stat

08:08:50 04/30/16

Cloud drive ...

bullethead

07:21:13 04/30/16

Cloud drive ..., posted on April 30, 2016 at 07:21:13
bullethead	I use a cloud drive to stream my music over 4g network. I pay Google $2 a month for 100gb of storage.

Simply maintain a goodly subset of content, posted on April 30, 2016 at 08:08:50
E-Stat Audiophile Posts: 37580 Joined: May 12, 2000 Contributor Since: April 5, 2002	which is not difficult having a 64 GB iPhone. My digital library is stored in FLAC so I use dbPoweramp to batch convert to a lossless Apple format. I stream sometimes via LTE, but that doesn't work very well at 33,000 feet. :)

RE: Your approach to smartphone music storage?, posted on April 30, 2016 at 12:01:03

AbeCollins
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Posts: 46280
Location: USA
Joined: June 22, 2001
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I don't use my iPhone or iPod Touch as my primary music source at home but I use them in the car and when I'm on travel.

These days I mostly stream (4G LTE) off the 64GB iPhone using Spotify, Pandora, or Amazon Prime Music but I have a number of my favorites stored as 256kbps AAC files. I especially like Amazon Prime Music for streaming because any CD album that I purchased from Amazon over the years (and there are hundreds of them!) are also available to me for streaming.... and it sounds better to me than Pandora or Spotify.

In the car, I use my 128GB iPod Touch "transport" feeding digitally direct to the car audio system DAC via the iPod Lightning connector to USB under the armrest. No 3.5mm AUX audio plug/jack required. I store ALAC lossless music files on the iPod.

Just over 100GB of lossless content ripped mostly from my CD collection.

iPod Touch under center armrest. Look ma, no 3.5mm analog audio jack required! Just straight digital.

Control via iDrive controller, steering wheel mounted switches, or voice commands.

Misc stuff available via iPhone or iPod, in this case my contacts list

Onkyo hires player, posted on April 30, 2016 at 13:37:20
PaulN Audiophile Posts: 1412 Joined: January 13, 2000	I have about 100gb of selected music files on my iphone in the Onyo player. Most are hires files. Although the phone does downsample for playback via headphone jack pairing the phone with a DAC such as the Oppo HA-2 allows the files to be played back as full resolution. Tidal is another option.

RE: Your approach to smartphone music storage?, posted on April 30, 2016 at 18:43:37
johnvb Audiophile Posts: 495 Joined: October 26, 2011	Picked up a new Samsung S7 recently, that has the ability to add a micro SD card for extra storage. Threw in a 64 GB card, then added around 40 Gbs of FLAC music files. Playing via the Poweramp app.

Thank you, all, posted on May 1, 2016 at 15:40:41
hesson11 Audiophile Posts: 2280 Location: Florida Joined: December 8, 2005	I appreciate your comments. -Bob

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