Spot on. An enormously sensible and adult attitude. And quite rare in the fan-boy Appleverse.
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Spot on. An enormously sensible and adult attitude. And quite rare in the fan-boy Appleverse.
Hey, hey - come on! Sensible? Adult!? When did that happen!?
You can be 'fanboy' without buying the newest, latest and greatest.
I've been with Apple since '92 and it's not always been easy to keep up with the curve or particularly affordable here in the UK - so it's best to think out every purchase and find out exactly what you need and for what!
My current personal line up includes an iPhone 7, iPad Pro and said Mid-2014 Retina MacBook Pro plus two Apple TVs (2G and 4G). More than adequate for my needs.
Updates will only occur when the current gear is no longer fit for purpose or becomes beyond repair. Sustainably and sensibly is the way to upgrade. You never know what's around the next corner in life!
~C
Sensible, pah!
Current version of iTunes can't edit multiple items in bulk, such as multiple albums or songs from multiple genres.Okay, I'm going to bite. What are you specifically concerns you about the current release of iTunes?
I do not experience trouble with the latest 3 bèta's and TM. It works on an iMac and a MBP. I have PHOTO synchronisation problems with iCloud. It comes and goes...
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Early 2011
Put a SSD in it and still good enough for a couple of years.
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Okay, I'm not seeing this. I've selected multiple albums and songs across genres and have been able to make changes using <Command>+<I> or Edit>Get Info.
Am I missing something here?
Your missing part is: in iTunes 12.6, no matter which item you change, it will not be saved. When you Reopen, old item is still there.
Not the case for me. I have changes details in individual songs and groups of songs and all have remained after restarting iTunes...
Can't comment on any specific fixes/enhancements, but the last two public betas (4 and now 5) have smoothed out the account switching issues I have experienced since the original Sierra release on a 16GB 13" TBP. I typically have two user accounts going (personal & work) which is horrendous on resources and battery life - especially with Chrome as my browser of choice.
The previous beta (too soon to tell with this 5th beta) also seems to have improved battery life and occasional hiccups or slowness with heavy use. It might be a combination of Chrome updates & OS tuning with the betas, I don't know. It is nice to wake up a sleeping machine in the morning and see a 3~5% drop in battery life as opposed to the 12~18% I was seeing.
The previous beta (too soon to tell with this 5th beta) also seems to have improved battery life and occasional hiccups or slowness with heavy use. It might be a combination of Chrome updates & OS tuning with the betas, I don't know. It is nice to wake up a sleeping machine in the morning and see a 3~5% drop in battery life as opposed to the 12~18% I was seeing.
You could try this: change genre of a whole bunch of albums to something else, or change disc number to 1.
What I encounter is: if I want to change, like, three albums genre to "vocal", I select all three albums. Then, I type "vocal" in genre, click OK. Then, nothing happen. When I check the info of those three albums, the genre is still not vocal, but something else.
This all works for me. Have you checked the permissions on your iTunes folder? Do you actually own the albums you are attempting to change or are they downloaded from a subscription service like Apple Music - just a thought.
Those albums are all downloaded or ripped elsewhere, and I have full permission to every single file that is involved.
My issue is solved when I manage to revert iTunes back to iTunes 12.5.4 and disable any software update. I can use iTunes 12.5.4 to update metadata as I wish. No same issue found in iTunes 12.6.
Odd, I can't seem to replicate it at all.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Have you tried submitting a bug report to Apple or have you been in touch with Apple Support?
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that is not entirely accurate, you can easily modify the plist file inside the NVDAStartupWeb.kext to match the system build # so the web drivers can load without having to wait for nvidia to release the new web drivers or beta drivers for that specific os version
been there done that many times, that is the first trick you have to learn when you have a Hackintosh with an Nvidia card
this is handy when you update to a new version of mac os
so you don't have to wait for Nvidia to release the new web drivers in order for you to install and use the that new updated version of os
or if you installed a beta and there are no beta web drivers available you can always do this trick in order for you to install and test that beta and have web drivers support.
it all depends if the person knows this trick or not
i have a hackintosh with a 1080 nvidia card and i can install betas without any problem and have full graphic acceleration support
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The biggest problem I have is automatically splitting some albums into several pieces when they have the completely same metadata.
I see then one album four times, for example, each with some random tracks in it. This is really annoying. Strangely on my iPhone, everything looks fine, when I sync normally and with iCloud Music Library on (Match).
I don't know since when this happens, but it's not new. About a year maybe.
It is a proven fact that any good project worth doing takes 18 months on the inside with in-house testing for the next 9 months time, it is fine wine not Windows 98.
I'm really surprised at the incompetence level of Apple engineers these days. They can't fix old long standing bugs for years and with each update they seem to break one or another functionality. Something will disappear from one update and the it appears again. It's so annoying and this joker Craig Federighi is only busy talking big...
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iCloud music library is just a flawed product, period. Never bother handing over my music library that way.The biggest problem I have is automatically splitting some albums into several pieces when they have the completely same metadata.
I see then one album four times, for example, each with some random tracks in it. This is really annoying. Strangely on my iPhone, everything looks fine, when I sync normally and with iCloud Music Library on (Match).
I don't know since when this happens, but it's not new. About a year maybe.
Well, the original point was Apple is following Microsoft's lead in yearly updates and it's the reverse.
Apple started in 2012 vs 2016 with Windows 10... Who's following who's lead?
Additionally to your point: So let's see Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (5 releases) vs MacOS 10.4-10.12 (9 releases) since 2005. 5<9 how's that for math?
You make it sound like yearly os updates is a good thing. I completely disagree. Refining and perfecting the stability of whatever the CURRENT os is ... is a LOT more important to many people that a couple new features that a new os may bring. Besides, there's no rule that they have to release a new os to introduce new features anyway - look at night shift, introducted in 10.12.4.
No matter what kind of software we're talking about, forcing a schedule of yearly os updates, come hell or high water (which is what Apple execs now seem to think they need to do) is not going to be a friend to stability. It's common sense.
They should release a new os when it's truly ready ... not when a marketing hack says 'it's time'.
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Been working for me lately. Not sure if it was a sierra update or an update on the two NAS I use for time machine, but the problem stopped.