I HATE APPLE

Would I not notice the difference between a MBA and MBP running Adobe Lightroom?

I’m a machine learning engineer. Get an mba. Max out ram then disk then cpu in that order.

MBP was the right choice for me. my laptop (even pre-covid) moved between my home office and my living room, so size and weight were pretty much irrelevant.

Mbps are pointy slabs and have touchbar. They suck.

but the fan noise makes me feel like I'm piloting a jet! whooooooooo

Tracer - sadly my only solution to your problem - copy all the song mp3s into its own folder, make a playlist in VLC, then export the m3u, zip it all up.

Thank you Nhex

Little things like this really make me feel like we took a wrong turn with computers somewhere. It's 2020. It should be easy to share a playlist of music with my wife in the default application of the richest computer company in the world.

No problem. Sadly, I feel like this is one of those things that happened by design - Apple likely doesn't want users sending music to anyone else, going back to the P2P sharing days. At least they lost the DRM fight, I suppose.

Yes I'm sure that's right.

You can do 'Home Sharing' but both devices need to be signed in with the same iCloud account i believe.

does this process not work for exporting the playlist? Apologies if I misunderstood the requirement:
https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/music/mus27cd5060f/mac

(and Show in Finder for each of the tracks so you can drag to a USB)

Ah that's nice. I'd still need to manually copy the songs as a separate operation though, I think? i.e. save them out, Airdrop, go over to her computer, drag into Music. But this will help get the playlist in order quickly once I've done that without using VLC or something else.

Yeah - if you go through the list and press cmd-shift-R (for reveal) you will bring up a Finder window with the track file highlighted, so you can right-click to Airdrop or drag it to a USB and copy it. Sucks that there's not a batch export but at least track files plus playlist should do it?

No batch export? Not in Catalan yet but you’ve always been able to just drag songs out of iTunes directly into a finder window.

Yeah you can do that. And then I guess you export an XML playlist into that folder following the technique above. Then Airdrop all that. Then on the other computer drag contents of that folder into a new playlist in iTunes and if the XML is included in what you're dragging it... ought to work. Of course a computer could simplify that process. But no.

burn a cd

You lose all the ID3 data that way, but at least it would keep the tracks in order lol

C30 C60 C90 Go!

Man up and make a proper mix, ditch the tracklist and let the music speak.

tags for life

dan you’re otm. easiest solution just one long file. i could even paste the tracklist into the lyrics field for old times’ sake.

^ yeah pretty easy to do that in GarageBand

is there any reason not to buy a macbook from amazon instead of directly from apple (not an ethical question)

I was about to say you’d have to jump through some hoops to get applecare but it appears they have it as an option when you buy on Amazon, so... no

is applecare worth it? i find it confusing and am skeptical

all insurance is a risk, one bad experience taught me to just go ahead and do it

i never get it fwiw but it depends on individual circumstances (are you a dropper, do you have other insurance, how much is the hardware to replace, etc.)

I haven’t done the newer one with accidental coverage on a laptop, but yeah.. it’s a gamble like all insurance

Basically if something dies on your mac after the initial warranty and it’s still under applecare they just fix it. I know people who have had the logic board die, I think I’ve only ever used it when I had a hard disk die over a decade ago.

Apple care worth it for the air pods. Replace the batteries right before the two years are up = new air pods basically

I had an iMac that turned out to be a lemon once and now get AppleCare for everything basically. Go to store, get work done (or replacement issued), the end. It's really simple.

fwiw apple hardware has a one year warranty and if you live in a country with a working government (not the US) then you are covered by consumer protection law too. AFAICT applecare is useful in year 2+ or as accidental damage coverage. if you buy the hardware with a fancy credit card you probably get accidental damage coverage for 3-4 months too.

i don't really get the math. i saw a person online say they had to pay $400 to repair a cracked screen when they didn't have applecare. but applecare costs $379 for three years (on a macbook) and there's a $99 service fee for screen repairs so that's more than just paying for screen repair.

It depends. I've never seriously cracked a phone screen, and usually replace a phone within 5 years; not so for my last several desktops. My last iMac had a power surge kill the hard drive, and I had to have it sent into a third party which cost me a lot more than than $130 for Applecare would have. I understand the cost of Applecare is much higher for phones and laptops, though, so harder decision.

but what about the next three times you break the screen, huh?

It's 2020. It should be easy to share a playlist of music with my wife in the default application of the richest computer company in the world.

These will do it:
https://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=mxexportfilesfromplaylists
https://dougscripts.com/apps/m3unifyapp.php

I've always gotten Applecare, and it paid off with my current iMac when an ant somehow managed to crawl under the monitor glass and die right in the middle of the screen.

Nice.

ant killer

*obligatory tens of thousands of "my computer is buggy" unfunny jokes here*

Elvis isn’t that the same as just dragging the files from the playlist to the Finder?

I think one of them will include a .m3u in the export? I've never actually had a need to do this...

Yes - m3unify - thanks Elvis!

I have another one. I feel like an idiot for not figuring this one out.

My phone's on silent. However, certain notifications will still generate a low-pitched 'boop'. Do you guys know what I mean?

I can I turn off the 'boop'????

"Vibrate on silent" is OFF under Sounds & Haptics?

no it’s on. i don’t mind the vibration. i just don’t want the “boop”, which is different.

Hmm. I'm not sure that's the not the source of the "boop". I think I know what you mean and it may be the way this phone vibrates on certain surfaces. Or I may be completely wrong and this is actual sound out of the speaker which you don't want.

Alarms go off when your phone is silent. Nothing else that I can think of

My phone has recently started to automatically pull screen brightness down to 50%, when both Auto-Brightness and Reduce White Point are off, and it's not in low power mode. Consensus seems to be somewhere between "you've been using it out in direct sunlight for too long, it's trying to reduce internal temperature" to "get it replaced, it shouldn't be doing that". The former has been true lately, because my daughter's got me back into Pokemon Go. But right now it's sitting next to me on the bedside table and it's stepped down from around 80% to 50% all on its own over the course of 10min.

What with Tracer's wireless charging pad mis-alignment mishap, this model does seem to have some overheating issues (if that's what this is).

Wah

As with many things, a restart seems to fix the mysterious 50% brightness thing (it was still happening this morning). After a reboot, it stays as bright as I set it (though I think auto-brightness is a sensible feature and I will turn that on).