I HATE APPLE

i bought the fancy wirecutter recommendations (jabra 75t) and they work but kinda suck, like they sound bad and i had to superglue the tips on b/c they kept getting lodged in my ear and i would have to fish em out with tweezers, thanks wirecutter

gonna try the cheap ones, noise cancelling is fucking stupid

On my walks I often see lonely single ear buds laying on the ground... such a waste

I've never owned Apple's version, but wireless headphones/earbuds has been a game changer for me - I'll never willingly go back to wired.

guess it’s just mw and Chewshabadoo backing the Ludd Gang then

I don't use earbuds at all. They're much more damaging to your hearing than cans.

xp My AirPods have better sound quality than my sub-$30 Bluetooth earbuds, but they fall off every time I put them on, so I only use the cheap ones

i bought the fancy wirecutter recommendations (jabra 75t) and they work but kinda suck

yeah there are multiple reasons why I prefer the wireless ones which were mostly stated above. Anyway, seems to be confirmed in that reddit thread above that apple fucked something up completely which is affecting some but not all airpods on the market and to fix it you either have to upgrade to a beta version of iOS (which will only fix your ability to connect to your phone, so no help if you need to connect to your laptop) or wait for them to fix it. Quite annoying.

Dropouts when using AirPlay to stream from Music to an Airport Express. (Dropouts kinda understates it, it'll just stop streaming.) Switching back to the Music app always fixes it, so I'm guessing that "keep miniplayer on top" would work. Trying renice -20 first though. I shouldn't have to do any of this though!

Trying renice -20 first though.

failure

keep miniplayer on top working so far but ugh

fun fact about Jabra earbuds is they don’t support “computers”, ie if something doesn’t work and you’re not connected to an android or iOS phone then they you’re out of luck.

for babies and any other situation where earbuds help sanity but you can't afford to not hear stuff around you... the Sony Linkbuds got me to take the plunge on wireless. They have a hole in the middle. Been very good. Would only recommend trying if you can get them somewhere that would accept a return though. Very subjective fit (and thus, sound too).

(the airpod shape doesn't stay in for me either)

God, yes, airplay dropouts, the bane of my existence for a while. You can avoid it with a wired connection. Eventually I gave up, put my entire library on an older Mac Mini, and control it using iTunes remote. No issues since then.

I have this issue in apple notes on the phone where after I scroll to the bottom of a note, it suddenly jumps up to somewhere else in the note. Amazing that apple can’t fucking do notepad

wow macOS really wants to dump every photo i've ever taken onto my iPhone. it wants to do that SO BAD. i have turned all the things off and it's still doing it. i guess i just have to sit here and wait until it puts all 11K of my photos into my phone, or until my phone fills up, whichever comes first. and then delete them all and hope it doesn't try to do it again next time.

It’s just loading the thumbnails (by default)….

I have 13k photos and they (thumbnails) take up 3.5 gigs on my phone

i .... i just don't want or need photos on my phone. i use my phone as a camera, then dump the photos onto my computer. ?!?!?!?!eleventy!!1111!!!?!

Eventually I gave up, put my entire library on an older Mac Mini, and control it using iTunes remote. No issues since then.

needing a whole different computer to stream music reliably is perfect I HATE APPLE material, thanks.

Very true, but for less than a CD player I now have it sitting in my hi fi stack, feeding a superb DAC, and haven't had to tinker with it much in four years.

I'm definitely tempted.

if anyone's interested - I run it headless, use Screen Sharing / VNC to control the iTunes screen and edit track data, shared folders to drop files into the library (or import lossless using the CD drive, it's an older machine) and the iTunes Remote to call up the library on my phone or iPad. Optical out thru the headphone port to the DAC, run it at 24/96 even tho most of my library is 16/44, so I can adjust volume etc without iTunes having to do any math beyond multiplying. Typically just leave my amp on, set to the highest volume I usually want, and control volume via iTunes. Also run rsync jobs from the Terminal app, to differentially back up the library to a NAS. The only weird thing I had to do was buy a Mini DisplayPort "monitor simulator" plug for a few dollars, so it runs at a high resolution for the remote screens.

oh it also responds to one of those white Apple remotes that came with Minis and iMacs, which I leave nearby for quick pause, volume change or track skip

I think I might get a used tablet to run iTunes Remote. Big part of the appeal is not having to look at one of my my primary distraction engines just to put an album on.

I’ll stick with a stereo cable running into a mixer, thanks.

If anyone’s interested, I’ve got a Walkman that takes AAs. I run it straight into some crappy headphones that have the ear foam falling off

now we’re talkin

btw there is an article on Pitchfork at the moment which accurately describes my pathology

yeah that's not bad reading for anyone thinking hard about these things

(the half dozen state of digital music and music biz articles on the front page atm)

i'll post it on the relevant thread -->

Maintaining a Digital Music Collection

It's very impressive, mattttkkkk, no lie. But I still lol @ The only weird thing I had to do... because Sir.

fans running near full speed all the time. 75% idle. yep i reset smc.

er, actually, resetting smc seems to have worked.

ok no

I feel like resetting smc is way over-recommended

Check activity monitor

Yeah, I was at 75% idle, CPU temp was 65-71c, and fans were nearly full blast. Right now 95% idle and it's quiet.

i put a DAC add-on card into a raspberry pi running kodi and plugged it into an amp— posting in this thread because when i listen to streaming services i use airplay to stream to the rpi from my phone, which is the only part of the setup that ever doesn’t work.

I had this issue, and then I followed these instructions, and it's been much better - almost no throttling, and the fans are much quieter. However, I think most of the benefit of opening up the mac was from cleaning out the fans. Not sure if all the thermal pads are helping.

dust clogged the fan in my 2015 imac so completely that it'd turn off after 30 seconds if you asked it to do anything other than idle. i had to take it apart and pull the fan - there was a complete brick of dust that prevented any air from getting to the cpu

pplains although I focused on the jargon there is nothing more to it than setting up a Mac with iTunes, plugging an optical cable into the headphone socket and turning on Screen Sharing in the prefs. Everything else is finessing. The iTunes Remote app is free on the phone and pairs up easily.
The only futzing I did was in service to my obsession with lossless files, even though I know full well my hearing has aged past the point of ever detecting file compression.

The other good thing is that you can troubleshoot it just by running the Mac headphone socket to aux in, and leaving a screen plugged in, which I did for a few weeks while making sure it all worked as expected. I doubt I would be able to tell the difference in sound quality in a blind test anyway.

i’m with pplains

from afar, it is pretty weird!! but in an endearing way. <3

well at least I’m using it to listen to Slowdive and Tierra Whack

i had this issue for a long time and then realised my 10yo son was leaving roblox running in his user account 🙄

i put a DAC add-on card into a raspberry pi running kodi and plugged it into an amp— posting in this thread because when i listen to streaming services i use airplay to stream to the rpi from my phone, which is the only part of the setup that ever doesn’t work.

the 13 pro camera kind of sucks, don’t know why. Too much algorithms or something

Yeah, it does this weird HDR cursed image looking stuff sometimes. I think it’s Night mode. I’ve been using ProCamera more often. I wish I could replace the lock screen icon with it.