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I use IINA when I need to listen to a folder of music/demos that I don’t want in Apple Music. It’s typically a video player but works well for audio and reminds me of Winamp
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VOX isn't bad, if you turn off the online features. It also plays .ogg files.
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Oct 20, 2021 16:38
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I use Roon.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:10
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Foobar2000 has a Mac app that’s perfectly okay enough.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:15
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How's Parallels on ARM? I have an order in for one of the new MBPs, but, coming from an Intel one, I'm not looking forward to losing easy x86 virtualization. ARM Windows wouldn't take care of my biggest use case (hardware that has x64 Windows-only drivers and software), but maybe it would cover some smaller ones when Crossover doesn't work for some reason so I wouldn't have to pull out a Windows computer for those? I've always used VMWare Fusion on Macs, though, and I have no idea how well any of this poo poo is working on the M1 Macs.
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Oct 20, 2021 17:55
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Is there any way to edit the songs on your iPhone via Music like the old iTunes? For instance, I used to be able to get in there and edit metadata specifically in my iPhone library. Now I have to delete the entire album, edit it Music, and add it again. Maybe I’m doing this wrong, but the interface blows. Can’t even figure out to sort what’s on my iPhone via custom settings anymore.
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Oct 21, 2021 08:38
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I've installed a command-line app called SUMO, which works with two accompanying apps, SUMO GUI and Netedit. But as they're unsigned I can't get them to work, it just fails silently when I try. When I right-clicked and opened the app I said OK but nothing happened. When I check System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Acessibilty the apps don't show. Any suggestions?
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Oct 21, 2021 12:03
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Sri.Theo posted:I've installed a command-line app called SUMO, which works with two accompanying apps, SUMO GUI and Netedit. Does the old key combo work? I always forget what it is, but right click on the apps, then while you have the context menu open, try modifier keys until Show Inspector appears (that's the right modifier), then try to open the app. You'll get a different open dialog that should authenticate the apps permanently. If this is what you mean you did, my apologies for misreading.
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Oct 21, 2021 12:07
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Arivia posted:Does the old key combo work? I always forget what it is, but right click on the apps, then while you have the context menu open, try modifier keys until Show Inspector appears (that's the right modifier), then try to open the app. You'll get a different open dialog that should authenticate the apps permanently. Hmm good idea but no dice.
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Oct 21, 2021 12:48
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I've been pleased to find that Music can be made to work pretty much just like iTunes of old did, just go to Songs and turn on the Column Browser and pretend none of the other tabs exist.
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Oct 21, 2021 14:12
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Armauk posted:Swinsian, if you need a GUI. swinsian is pretty good! plays FLAC and doesn’t seem to choke on my library being on a NAS which a lot of these players seem to. interface is your standard winamp esque 3 pane aka the best one no dark mode support but what you gonna do eh
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Oct 21, 2021 15:15
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Data Graham posted:I've been pleased to find that Music can be made to work pretty much just like iTunes of old did, just go to Songs and turn on the Column Browser and pretend none of the other tabs exist. oh HUH! THANK YOU for this -- I've been using the search bar to find songs and artists in my library because it's such a massive pain to scroll otherwise. This is really great and it's a shame it's hidden behind a menu selection.
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Oct 21, 2021 15:36
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Data Graham posted:I've been pleased to find that Music can be made to work pretty much just like iTunes of old did, just go to Songs and turn on the Column Browser and pretend none of the other tabs exist. This works for me with my local iMac music library, but when I plug my iPhone in to move stuff back-and-forth, I'm unable to do anything to the music on the iPhone save for adding music. If I press backspace it says it will delete tracks, but it doesn't. That has to do be done on the phone itself. No one gives a poo poo about mp3s anymore, and they want me to sub to Apple Music, I get it. If there's a good alternative to manage mp3s on an iPhone that anyone knows of, I'd appreciate it.
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Oct 22, 2021 05:35
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Beets + Plex manages all my thousands upon thousands of mp3s just fine. Plexamp on my iPhone plays the sweet jams all night long.
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Oct 22, 2021 11:59
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Fly Ricky posted:This works for me with my local iMac music library, but when I plug my iPhone in to move stuff back-and-forth, I'm unable to do anything to the music on the iPhone save for adding music. If I press backspace it says it will delete tracks, but it doesn't. That has to do be done on the phone itself. Are one of the two low on storage or something? Just have iTunes be a mirror of what you want on your phone. Micromanaging your collection on the phone itself is an awful way of managing your music collection. I have 15k mp3s in my iTunes on my phone and I just plug my phone to sync whenever.
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Oct 22, 2021 12:06
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IUG posted:Are one of the two low on storage or something? Just have iTunes be a mirror of what you want on your phone. Micromanaging your collection on the phone itself is an awful way of managing your music collection. I have 15k mp3s in my iTunes on my phone and I just plug my phone to sync whenever. Ok, I'm an edge case but my problem is the opposite of that. For "reasons", I've treated my iPhone and iMac music libraries as separate entities more or less. Explicitly do not want to sync them or have them mirror each other. There's nothing awful about wanting control of how music is organized on your phone vs. your desktop. Even a casual user might want to futz around with some aspect of the music library on their iPhone without having to change their home setup. Things like metadata were previously open to editing on your iPhone distinctly from your Mac. And you could manipulate your iPhone library with all of the tools available on desktop. They've taken all of those options away. Sync or nothing. edit: vvv yeah there’s no real solution to what I want. They took the option away, just gotta do my best to work with it. Fly Ricky fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Oct 22, 2021 |
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Oct 22, 2021 12:31
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Apple has never been known for flexibility around unusual use cases; you do things the intended way or you have a really hard time, case in point. You could maybe set up a second iTunes library on the desktop for ‘phone stuff’ and open that up for editing and syncing? But honestly it’s going to be much easier if you stop fighting the intended workflow, merge everything and then just sync the subset of things you want on your phone.
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Oct 22, 2021 12:55
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What's a good mac os password-manager a boomer can use? My dad just got a warning from Apple that most of his passwords are crap, and I told him to get a password manager. Which one?
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Oct 22, 2021 14:02
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My sisters and I have our parents on a shared 1Password vault so we can get to their passwords when they forget. Seems to work pretty well, our parents are able to use 1Password without too much problem.
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Oct 22, 2021 14:42
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busalover posted:What's a good mac os password-manager a boomer can use? My dad just got a warning from Apple that most of his passwords are crap, and I told him to get a password manager. Which one?
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Oct 22, 2021 15:12
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Xabi posted:Why not just use iCloud Keychain? Yeah I just read about that. Apparently it can generate passwords, which is all that's really needed.
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Oct 22, 2021 15:20
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Dicty Bojangles posted:My sisters and I have our parents on a shared 1Password vault so we can get to their passwords when they forget. Seems to work pretty well, our parents are able to use 1Password without too much problem. If your folks are getting older this is a great option to make sure you can access their passwords if you need to and also makes troubleshooting easier if you can pull it up. Also having a dedicated app may easier for old people to understand than an integrated feature buried in settings.
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Oct 22, 2021 15:32
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One of the failure states of iCloud Keychain is that some sites, Apple will generate a password but not save it properly, which means now you have an unguessable password and no easy way to get it back without resetting the password and hand making one and then climbing into the settings to save it. I don't bother with another password manager, but there are still flaws in the default that might outweigh the benefits of not having to learn a new bit of software.
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Oct 22, 2021 15:40
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I can vouch for both 1) 1password being really good and 2) an unacceptable % of the time, keychain fails to save the password it made
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Oct 22, 2021 15:56
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A few time on update I've had to log out for 1Password to recognize chrome.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:04
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emdash posted:I can vouch for both 1) 1password being really good and 2) an unacceptable % of the time, keychain fails to save the password it made
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Oct 22, 2021 16:29
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Firefox has an integrated and really straightforward password generator and manager.
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Oct 22, 2021 17:00
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I think when this happens it still saves it in Keychain Access, but yeah, not acceptable and certainly not acceptable for Olds. Yeah I basically have to have Keychain Access open at all times because I can never put it away long enough to be confident I won't need it for some drat thing Safari didn't think it necessary to save properly. Usually I can blame it on some site's weird convoluted 2-factor/SSO auth flow but until all those get standardized it's not getting any better
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Oct 22, 2021 17:35
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Missed this announcement last week, but for anyone using Blender on MacOS (Intel & AS) Apple is now officially a member of the Dev Fund and has a beta build using Metal for Cycles rendering. https://www.blender.org/press/apple-joins-blender-development-fund/ Pretty cool, I'm excited to see this happen. Gritting my teeth not buying a new AS 16" until the new year. I don't need it now. I don't. Really.
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Oct 22, 2021 17:54
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squirrelzipper posted:Pretty cool, I'm excited to see this happen. Gritting my teeth not buying a new AS 16" until the new year. I don't need it now. I don't. Really. On the other hand, yes you do.
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Oct 22, 2021 18:07
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Keychain is a great idea but it sucks rear end.
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Oct 22, 2021 18:14
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Crunchy Black posted:a great idea but it sucks rear end.
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Oct 22, 2021 18:58
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 How do I remove these Dropbox actions when I right click a file? (No I don't want to uninstall Dropbox entirely.)
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Oct 22, 2021 19:13
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Crunchy Black posted:Keychain is a great idea but it sucks rear end. Yep. For some reason it fucks up my passwords enough, even though the password matches what Bitwarden enters, and I can’t login. I just installed Bitwarden’s app as a fallback if the Bitwarden safari extension doesn’t work for some dumb reason. Keychain is just not great.
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Oct 22, 2021 20:14
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Keychain is flawless for me on the iPhone and great to sometimes not great on Macs. I would recommend it to anyone though. Even with occasional issues it’s one of those things I can’t imagine not using.
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Oct 22, 2021 20:22
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I feel odd man out because I've honestly never really had much of an issue with Keychain and its integration into daily life. Usually when it fails to save a password I found it's because the resource I'm trying to authenticate with isn't super tightly coupled to how Keychain detects where to fill stuff in. Like a signup page is on auth.website.co.uk where the login form is website.com or something. Not saying it's bulletproof but I've usually been able to narrow down the failure cases.
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Oct 22, 2021 20:24
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Martytoof posted:Usually when it fails to save a password I found it's because the resource I'm trying to authenticate with isn't super tightly coupled to how Keychain detects where to fill stuff in. Yeah, that's my experience too.
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Oct 22, 2021 20:53
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Boris Galerkin posted:
I don’t have Dropbox but my first instinct would be to check System preferences -> Extensions -> Finder. Anything in there Dropbox-related?
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Oct 22, 2021 20:57
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Martytoof posted:I feel odd man out because I've honestly never really had much of an issue with Keychain and its integration into daily life. Yeah but Pa Kettle sure isn't going to be able to figure that out.
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Oct 22, 2021 21:26
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jokes posted:Yep. For some reason it fucks up my passwords enough, even though the password matches what Bitwarden enters, and I can’t login. Sounds like using a second layer of password management is complicating things and casing the issue here? I use keychain constantly and only on rare occasions (which are mostly down to crappy website design not labeling fields correctly, switching domains etc) do I ever have an issue, which I can then solve quickly.
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