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Is converting higher bit rate songs only talking about downloaded music to my iphone?

I have so much lossless music that is far above 320 and my import settings are lossless encoder. I have over 700gb of music on my cloud that is linked to my phone. But I’m only using 3gb of downloads. Is that what convert higher bit rate means? It is just downloads to your phone? I just don’t want my huge vinyl ripped files to go too 256kb it will be a much smaller file. Also it sort of the same thing when you go to your settings on your iPhone, how you can download in lossless, High rez lossless, or 256 aac? If these two things are the exact same I have nothing to worry about

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Sep 24, 2021 6:00 AM

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Posted on Sep 24, 2021 6:44 PM

Hi Fu-Schnickens :)

Welcome to the Apple Community.

Seems it is always a good idea to keep a back-up of anything in iCloud.

iCloud is best at syncing all our devices.

Eg: Editing a photo file on iPhone reflects in iCloud, and across all devices.

If set up that way, iCloud may save space on devices by syncing files at a lower quality

Discussion thread: about converting higher bit rate:

(Says: Higher bit rate songs are either Apple Lossless format or AAC 256kb/s usually)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4792699

Apple support have articles online that may (or may not) be helpful.

Listen to lossless audio in Music on Mac

Lossless: Up to 24-bit, 48 kHz
Hi-Res Lossless: Up to 24-bit, 192 kHz

Albums and songs available in lossless have the Lossless button next to them

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/music/mus90b573cbb/mac

Convert music file formats in Music on Mac

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253178052

Play high sample rate digital audio on Mac computers

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202730

iCloud User Guide

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/icloud/welcome/icloud

iCloud support:

https://support.apple.com/icloud

Hope there's something useful here.

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Sep 24, 2021 6:44 PM in response to Fu-Schnickens

Hi Fu-Schnickens :)

Welcome to the Apple Community.

Seems it is always a good idea to keep a back-up of anything in iCloud.

iCloud is best at syncing all our devices.

Eg: Editing a photo file on iPhone reflects in iCloud, and across all devices.

If set up that way, iCloud may save space on devices by syncing files at a lower quality

Discussion thread: about converting higher bit rate:

(Says: Higher bit rate songs are either Apple Lossless format or AAC 256kb/s usually)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4792699

Apple support have articles online that may (or may not) be helpful.

Listen to lossless audio in Music on Mac

Lossless: Up to 24-bit, 48 kHz
Hi-Res Lossless: Up to 24-bit, 192 kHz

Albums and songs available in lossless have the Lossless button next to them

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/music/mus90b573cbb/mac

Convert music file formats in Music on Mac

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253178052

Play high sample rate digital audio on Mac computers

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202730

iCloud User Guide

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/icloud/welcome/icloud

iCloud support:

https://support.apple.com/icloud

Hope there's something useful here.

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