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Apple Classical Mishaps and Shakeups, Bryan’s Important Backup Lesson

Bryan and Jeff talk about Apple buying the BIS Records classical music label, and how that fits in with the company’s services business plan. They also talk about Bryan’s unfortunate data loss and the importance of backing up your iPhone and iPad before installing software updates.

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More Foundation Love, Callsheet, and Fixing Music Album Ratings on the Mac

Bryan and Jeff rave about Foundation season 2 episode 8, and then roll right into an IMDb rant. They also dive deeper into the Callsheet app for iPhone and iPad, and share a tip for fixing album ratings in Apple’s Music app on the Mac.

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Bryan and Jeff rave about Foundation season 2 episode 8, and then roll right into an IMDb rant. They also dive deeper into the Callsheet app for iPhone and iPad, and share a tip for fixing album ratings in Apple’s Music app on the Mac.

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AppleScript to clear album auto ratings

tell application "Music"
	
	if selection is not {} then
		
		set mySelection to selection
		
		repeat with aTrack in mySelection
			
			if album rating kind of aTrack is computed then set album rating of aTrack to 1
			
		end repeat
		
	end if
	
end tell

AppleScript to activate album auto ratings

tell application "Music"
	
	if selection is not {} then
		
		set mySelection to selection
		
		repeat with aTrack in mySelection
			
			if album rating of aTrack is 1 then set album rating of aTrack to 0
			
		end repeat
		
	end if
	
end tell

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Foundation Has Become Great, iPads Won’t Replace Jeff’s Mac

Bryan and Jeff talk about why they’re enjoying Foundation season 2 on Apple TV+ so much. Jeff rants about Apple hobbling the iPad, and also has a cool IMDB replacement for Bryan.

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To AirPods or Not to AirPods

Bryan and Jeff talk about the possibility of a HomePod with a built-in display, and how they’re using their HomePods. Then Jeff gets a little rant going about his disappointment with Apple’s failure to adequately deal with the AirPods Pro’s crackly audio defect.

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The Macstock Recap and Three Shows You Should Watch

Bryan asks Jeff all about his recent trip to the Macstock 7 conference. Jeff gets schooled by Bryan on the streaming TV shows he needs to be watching now.

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One Social Media to Rule Them All (and Threads)

Jeff wants a consumer-focused app for managing all of the social media platforms he’s trying to use, and Bryan has plenty of reasons why he won’t get it. Their discussion weaves its way back to Threads and whether or not it will succeed.

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Threads Is Here, It’s a Lot Like Twitter, and That’s Good

Ken Ray joins Bryan Chaffin to discuss Threads, Meta’s new Twitter competitor that has gained more than 70 million users in roughly a couple of days.

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Jeff Schools Bryan on Ecobee and Apple Watch Fall Detection

Bryan is ready to upgrade is smart thermostat, so Jeff shares his experience using an ecobee. They also talk about the Apple Watch fall detection feature and how it recently helped one of Jeff’s friends.

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Surprise! Zuck (and Bryan) Gets Vision Pro Wrong

Bryan and Jeff decided to analyze Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction to Vision Pro, plus they have some more thoughts on Apple’s spacial computing platform. Spoiler: Zuck doesn’t come out looking good, although they both think he could take Elon Musk in a cage match.

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Apple’s Sherlock Spree

Jeff Gamet and special guest Dave Ginsburg take a look at some of the apps and services Apple Sherlocked with iOS 17 and macOS Ventura. At least from some people’s perspective, Apple mowed down the work from a lot of third-party developers. Bryan Chaffin is out this week.

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