>512GB of internal storage
That you have to share with photos/videos, apps, downloads, and everything else.
>syncing your music to convert higher-bitrate music to 128kbps (or 192 or 256kbps, your preference) AAC files.
Yeah, see - this isn't really your music collection then but reliance on Apple's Library and them "matching it" with what they have. I could never sync from their library b/c their library wouldn't have huge chunks of my actual digital collection.
I have hip hop mixtapes, Grateful Dead livesets, local artists who never had a major record deals (Fighting Gravity and a variety of punk bands), EDM live sets, and tons of stuff not in the Apple/iTunes Library they could never do anything with.
Secondly, like 30% of my collection is in FLAC, which Apple doesn't even support.
>I have no idea where you get the idea that you can't fit a decent-sized music library on an iPhone.
Because my music library is:
Server: $ du -sh Music/
905G Music/
Phone: 305GB ( i recently purged a ton to make space for videos/pictures )
Even if i was dealing with 60GB and even if i could rely on what was in their library - pulling down 60GB to a phone is painful. It takes me literal SECONDS to swap and SDcard from one phone to another as opposed to hours over WiFi.
Nevermind on android i can move files via ftp, smb, or any number of protocols. Even over the wire - it's plug and play. Copy and paste through any Windows, Mac or Linux file manager.
Thus, I don't have to rely on apple's crappy proprietary music apps to move files over a network or even a USB/lightning cable.
>Maybe you're one of those who believes that only lossless audio is worth listening to, and didn't consider that that's a niche opinion...?
No. I have a lot that's 320K mp3s. In fact, the grand majority of it is. Maybe 5-10% of my collection is worse quality than that. Virtually nothing is at 128k or worse. I typically stay away from Apple specific formats, lossless or not, regardless of their benefits.
