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Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by bunnycorn »

rusk wrote: post #296
bunnycorn wrote: post #270

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As bad as iTunes is, its still better than adb

That’s a poor excuse EDIT I would add that at least with adb its not the only option. Android is a reasonably open and flexible and open experience and there are lots of different ways you can manage your device. The iPhone for better or worse is locked down, the least Apple could do is provide something better than the lousy piece of crap that is iTunes.

No, that's not.

You'll need iTunes the same way as you need adb. You don't.

Also, iTunes is not a "lousy piece of crap".

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StreamBright wrote: post #297
8draco8 wrote: post #144

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The big question is do you really need that high quality of audio on the go? Is spotify/mp3 quality really hurts your ears that badly? I would rather spent money on home audio setup or highend mp3 player rather than pump all that money into iPhone. Plus listening lossless audio on the go in non silent environment seems pointless to begin with because of all the noise around interfering with music.

I use a hifi headphone that has amazing sound quality. Why should I give that up and move over to something worse? I think we as a society are responsible to reject if a company tries to push down something that is worse than the previous version. Capitalism and supply/demand works only if the purchasing power is smart about quality.

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Post by mrinterweb »

jonaswouters wrote: post #324
mrinterweb wrote: post #20

I have a 2017 MBP, and it regularly has audio issues, among other issues. Sometimes I'm able to kill the audio daemon, and get my audio back. Other times I have to reboot (sometimes I have to reset the PRAM in order to get audio back). I have audio problems at least once a week. I know two other people with 2017 MBPs that have the same regular issues I do. I assume there are many more. I feel that recent Apple laptop…

I had a 2017 MBP and the USB speakers I had caused issues. I sold them thinking it was an issue with the speakers, but the next set of USB speakers had the same problem. Eventually, I just used AUX to connect them.

The sound issues I've been running into are not limited to a single type of output. When the sound is out on my computer it is out for internal speakers, Bluetooth, HDMI, USB, and 3.5mm AUX.

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Post by fivefive55 »

4ec0755f5522 wrote: post #293
graeme wrote: post #217

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It never cost anything close to $180 though. That was my point: a phone that cost that little in 2016 was probably an older android and is unlikely to have current software support.

I got burned by Android being out of date (insecure) because my phone had to be updated by the carrier. I was royally pissed that neither the manufacturer of the phone nor my phone provider was taking ownership-- of the thing they took ownership of by not supporting vanilla Android to begin with-- and leaving me with an insecure device on their network. Total BS. I switched to iPhone now.

I hate this attitude. My super cheap budget android phone isn't getting updates, obviously the only solution is to switch to an iPhone that costs 4 times as much. Never mind that there are also Android phones that get updated just as long for the same price as the iPhone. Clearly all Android devices are absolutely identical no matter the price.

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Post by rusk »

bunnycorn wrote: post #331
rusk wrote: post #296

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That’s a poor excuse EDIT I would add that at least with adb its not the only option. Android is a reasonably open and flexible and open experience and there are lots of different ways you can manage your device. The iPhone for better or worse is locked down, the least Apple could do is provide something better than the lousy piece of crap that is iTunes.

No, that's not. You'll need iTunes the same way as you need adb. You don't. Also, iTunes is not a "lousy piece of crap".

> iTunes is not a "lousy piece of crap".

I commend you on your loyalty.

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Post by adrianhel »

pier25 wrote: post #313
adrianhel wrote: post #73

What is happening with Macs? My butterfly keyboard repeats keys. This easily halves my typing speed. (Or rather "Itt easily halves my ttyping speed") Yesterday my machine got stuck booting with a black screen after running out of battery with the backlight turned off. Also, the keyboards have gone from making virtually no sound to making loud clicking sounds. I have also had a glitch where the sound gets distorted.

Simply that Macs are one of the smallest sources of revenue for Apple. Around 10% if I remember correctly.

I understand that. But to be completely honest, for my sake they could bring back the 2013 model, keep patching bugs and just spec it up. Zero new features needed. They perfected the art. Just leave it be.

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Post by jamesb93 »

missjellyfish wrote: post #150
jamesb93 wrote: post #96

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Did you ever come across how they map parameters inside the VST/AU standard? Everyone else does 0 -> 1. They do 1 -> 120 or something completely boffed.

AFAIK it‘s 1 to 127 because of MIDI.

I distinctly remember it being not the MIDI standard, and it was really frustrating. I'll report back if I look at it again.

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Post by jamesb93 »

blihp wrote: post #108
jamesb93 wrote: post #92

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You sound like someone who has never had to deal with the horrific experience that is ASIO drivers. People use Mac because CoreAudio is great and obviously windows can't be trusted in a live setting due to the many already documented issues that it has with updating/crashing etc.

I don't doubt that there are numerous problems these days with the Mac/OS X and Apple overall.[1] My only point was that the group Apple is focused on today are general-purpose consumer users, not the traditional verticals (creatives, education, developers, etc.) that they built their reputation with. I suspect that's the reason we keep seeing articles like this: it's becoming painfully obvious to members of groups A…

The issue is there is great software such as [0] Supercollider and [1] Pd. As interfaces are class compliant the drivers actually work suprisingly well on Linux, its just stability and edge case bugs that will catch you out.

[0] - https://supercollider.github.io/

[1] - https://puredata.info/

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