Music on iPad Pro

I'm looking to buy an iPad Pro and was wondering, does anyone know how many musical tracks can be stored on a 512GB ?

Posted on Oct 28, 2020 11:30 AM

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Posted on Oct 28, 2020 12:13 PM

To add to Lotus's excellent answer, at around 5 or 6MB average per track in most cases, you can fit around 80,000 tracks in 512GB of storage space.


The higher the quality and length of a track, the less tracks you can fit.

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Oct 28, 2020 12:05 PM in response to KJUK76

The absolute number of music tracks that you’ll be able to store will be heavily influenced by the compression/encoding of the music. AAC is more efficient than MP3, but is less flexible. If using 320kb MP3 (the highest bitrate / least efficient), with 512GB at your disposal, you’ll need to have a massive music library to exhaust the available capacity.


Consider that your iPad will likely be used for other purposes - and some of your storage capacity will be used for other purposes - not least the iPad requiring a small proportion for iPadOS itself. 512GB is still a substantial platform.

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