Comments on: iTunes 9.1 can compress your iPhone music and save you space

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:24:06 +0000

it wont work for me when i press it and apply it doesnt do anything

By: RissaMarieSays

RissaMarieSays — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:09:06 +0000

In reply to Thomas. Okay will do.(:

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:02:15 +0000

Stay away from the button then 🙂 You won't like it.

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:30:32 +0000

In reply to John Steele.

Weird. I definitely responded to this comment via e-mamil, but I'll answer it again:

your MacBook will only keep the default, higher quality files, although a couple of hundred MB of temp files may be left over. Your iPhone will be the only one that will actually keep and store the lower quality 128kbps aac files.

You can see my new post (link is at the top of this post) about the whole compression process for the other answers. Hope it helps!

By: Andrea D. Wiener

Andrea D. Wiener — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:29:21 +0000

Try it – if you're gettin good quality and using the right equipment – the new conversion feature would DEFINITELY work… 🙂

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:10:05 +0000

In reply to Ron. Thanks for the feedback, Ron. Much appreciated. I'm getting braver by the minute.

By: John Steele

John Steele — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:14:37 +0000

I am not entirely understanding this. If I check the box, my music gets converted to something that takes less space on my iPhone, but my Macbook has the original file?

Doesn't this now mean that my Macbook has the original files + the newly converted? Obviously, I care more about space on my 32gb iPhone than on my 500gb Macbook, but I like to keep my digital things tidy and streamlined.

Also, if I open up Itunes and let it play through speakers (cheapish) is it going to play the higher quality bigger files, or these new smaller files?

By: ritz

ritz — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:37:51 +0000

it's nice but it messed up some of my lyrics.. it keeps on loading forever..

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:13:04 +0000

In reply to FrankCatalano. Hahahahahah! Well that's fine :P and also tells me your collection shrunk by about 33%. Not too shabby.

By: FrankCatalano

FrankCatalano — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:05:56 +0000

I was hoping you were not going to ask… I own a little over 3gb worth of music. I'm not a big fan of today's music. My music era was the 90's and after that I don't know what happened.

By: FrankCatalano

FrankCatalano — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:52:22 +0000

Thomas, I checked it out today. After syncing, it did gave me an extra (1) gig worth of space. It's pretty cool feature if you need the space. I listened to a few songs in a the car and I really didn't notice a big difference in quality. Pretty neat, thanks!

By: Angi

Angi — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:48:15 +0000

Hello Thomas,
Yes I tried it. It did free up quit a bit of space for me, my phone was full so I wanted to fit some more music on the good old iphone…I was really scared to upgrade the itunes. After my last upgrade experience (accidental) having to wait for another jailbreak…all the inherant hassle it just didnt seem worth it. but pretty much everyone said they were having no problems with the new version and even saurik tweeted that it was fine. Some people experienced sync issues so i waited, black breeze came out to fix those so I want ahead and took a breath and…tok 2 hours but did it. And guess what? Now I cant sync my jailbroken phone at all, blackbreeze wont open for me (appears to not be a normal exe file) and im stuck. my advice…if jailbroken users want to sync their phones…dont do it. At least until a proven working fix comes out. the new space does me no good cause I cant sync the additional music anyways. 🙁

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:12:03 +0000

In reply to Rip. Rip, I think it might just cache them and delete them after the sync is through. It would seem incredibly inefficient to keep both files on your comp at all times. Somebody posed the same question on TUAW but it hasn't been answered yet. One easy thing to do would simply be to try this out with a small sample of music and see if free space on your HDD goes down.

By: Rip

Rip — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:52:00 +0000

Doesn't it take up more space on your Mac, with the duplicate files though?

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:46:58 +0000

My library is pretty mixed between formats, so I thought I'd give it a try. It took a LONG time to sync initially, as expected, but it freed up about 20% of the space on my iPhone.

I haven't noticed any difference in sound quality, but I'm not a major audiophile. I do like having more space for more music.