22.23GB but I mostly stream from Apple Music. These are just my essentials.
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Other How much music do you have in your phone?
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I save music to my external storage so zero space used by music on my iPhone 7 Plus... I do at times download from streaming services like Spotify and YouTube Music when going to a place with limited internet and cellular/mobile connectivity...
0Gb. but i have 82 million songs on Spotify. why would you store music on your phone?? i guess i used to do that like 20 years ago...
I have around 20gb of music on my iPhone. Although I have access to Spotify (wife's account) and Amazon Music, 99% of the time I listen to my locally saved music. Reason: just my musical tastes. All the music I like, across several genres, is old (released 10-60 years ago) and I own it. The simplicity of the music app interface cannot be beat by any streaming service app.
iTunes or finder is your best bet. Plenty of tutorials online as well. You do need an external CD drive though.
Traveling through areas with poor to no connectivity, wifi or cellular.
I have the auto generated youtube music offline mixtape for the rare occasions i don't have wifi or signal. Typically i stream.
I guess i just don't travel anymore. what with pandemic and all. i mainly listen to music on my laptop (always spotify).
Here in the Western US there are still a lot of blank spots on the coverage maps so sometimes you don't have to go far to encounter very poor or even nonexistent connectivity.
89.17 GB (7,555 audio files). A handful of those individual files run 1 to 5 hours.
I like to listen to <my> music, not some playlist made by others.
A lot of what I listen to isn’t even on the radars of these streaming stations or is no longer available.
I also have a full range of taste. As an example I have a general playlist with ~700 songs. You’ll find a Black Sabbath song right next to Bing Crosby, Beach Boys, UFO, The Grass Roots next to Def Lepard or Two Steps From Hell, Ozzy, The Brains, and so on and so on.
I like to listen to <my> music, not some playlist made by others.
A lot of what I listen to isn’t even on the radars of these streaming stations or is no longer available.
I also have a full range of taste. As an example I have a general playlist with ~700 songs. You’ll find a Black Sabbath song right next to Bing Crosby, Beach Boys, UFO, The Grass Roots next to Def Lepard or Two Steps From Hell, Ozzy, The Brains, and so on and so on.
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I’ve got 242 GB stored music and have a 512GB phone. 106 GB left available so I think 512 was the best route for me. It’s nice to be able to just download whatever and have it at all times regardless of connectivity. The high quality stuff can take up a lot of space too but sounds much better.
In places you don’t get good signal or no signal at all. And nobody could listen to music on their phone 20 years ago.
Damn! That’s a lot of tunes! 😍 What phone memory size did you transfer from and go to?
Only streaming for me - Spotify and YouTube. They also offer downloading music and listening offline when the connectivity is poor. Storing tons of music has been left in the 90's. 
50 GB
It's almost the same as how you used to do it with iTunes except you use Finder on the Mac to do it now. Click on your phone in finder (might have to connect it via a lightning cable), click on the 'music' tab, select what music you want on your phone, hit the 'sync' button.
It's almost the same as how you used to do it with iTunes except you use Finder on the Mac to do it now. Click on your phone in finder (might have to connect it via a lightning cable), click on the 'music' tab, select what music you want on your phone, hit the 'sync' button.
Can relate. I've also got a ton of rare/foreign/live/etc music that is not available on streaming.
