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I’m sticking with it would sure be nice to have at least SOME belief that Apple is listening. If anyone can point me to a fix THAT WORKS for having to re-authorize my computer issue, I will be eternally grateful.

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I still love and prefer Apple but this has been, BY FAR, the worst upgrade for macOS EVER and, quite frankly, the upgrade to iOS 13 wasn’t much better. If I do NOT do this, there is a good chance that all the content will be removed because. This was a “last resort” effort to squash the bug.

Also, and this is a REALLY bothersome bug, I must re-authorize my system in order to confidently sync my devices which include an iPad and iPhone, both of which locally host EVERY song. Swinsian is a sophisticated music player for macOS with wide format support, folder watching, advanced tag editing and designed to be responsive even with the largest libraries. Now - several months later - I am back to ALMOST normal with the exception of laboriously re-rating every song. Fortunately, beyond that “minor” issue, things have been going well.

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My “house of cards” finally collapsed and, for the first time since OS X was released, I did a CLEAN install of the entire system.

I had spent easily several hundred hours curating the collection including album artwork appropriate to the original album from which the song came as well as a star rating for each. My music library, “peanuts” to some, I’m sure, had more than 19k songs. I finally replaced it because it wouldn’t die and I wanted something newer. Working half the time outdoors in all weather and autonomously, I used the living daylights out of it EVERY day. Actually, it was a GREAT machine and tougher than nails. My first iPod was the infamous 3rd generation with the four, individual buttons under the (tiny, monochrome) display. I have been a Mac user since System 6.0.3 (late 1889). You appear to be making a great start, your hardware is older but it will still give you many years reliable service.After waiting several MONTHS for the smoke to clear from the initial release of Catalina, I finally took the plunge. Meta tags and artwork retrieval are much easer and the “Grid Mode” format is also much better than iTunes, it’s missing the clutter and iTune App store garbage. It is an iTune replacement but does not get in iTunes way. You can customise this behaviour in the preferences if you would prefer to leave the files unchanged.

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iTunes from the server is shared to all.įor playback software I rip with iTunes but prefer “Swainian”. Yes, Swinsian will write any tags you edit back to the original files. We have 3 TV’s in the house, each has an older Mac attached, some dating back to 2007. These days I have a 75” monitor on the mini along with a simple Network Assisted Server that is used for whole house back-ups and also ripped DVD movies. Note, I have used an external and currently use an internal with the only difference being a slight bit of speed accessing files, but has never playback is not affected. Also the concert videos on Youtube are very cool. I am 64 and renting music is just not my thing. Free Youtube music videos! I get to listen to all types of music, if I like I buy it. The monitor opened up a whole new World of music. Later I did something I said I would never do, and that was to add a Monitor. I’ve been using a Mac Mini for years in various configurations: Headless with shared screen to MBP but used daily with an iPad with remote app but the set-up needed a monitor for configuration related issues.

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