The Verge noticed a job listing for an editor at it's Beats Music division, but it is asking for someone with experience with AVID MEDIA COMPOSER and ADOBE PREMIERE PRO! Ha! It seems even Apple does not use Final Cut Pro X.
So I have been spending all the time I can re-rating my iTunes Library, and so far I am only in D! This is going to literally take forever! Such a pain. And it seems to have been slowing down the more things I rate or make playlists, but that seems to have changed.iTunes updated to version 12.3.2.35 recently, which allows for 100,000 songs in iTunes Match, and iTunes seems to have sped up again, no more beachballs all the time. Nice! Lets hope it stays this way! This is such an improvement. My almost 50,000 library seems zippy again!
I can't believe I had not tried that, but Apple support got me and now Messages works in El CapitanThere was some strangeness though, and it is to do with my NVIDIA Geforce GTX 670 I mentioned in my previous post. After resetting the PRAM the computer came back up, but all the blue was orange again, and this time I took screenshots, but they looks correct once the problem is fixed! And to fix the issue I had to re-install the latest NVIDIA web drivers, though they were showing as already installed. Next time I will take a physical picture.
I run a NVIDIA GTX 670 with 4 GB of RAM in my MacPro, and it is not flashed. So when I update the system I have to use VNC to sign into my Mac and update the NVIDIA Web drivers and restart before my Mac shows anything on the monitors (or I have to swap my old GTX 270 and do the Update).This seems to have changed with 10.11.2. In fact it showed the updating screen before the Desktop, and then came to the desktop. Of course it was not normal, in fact all Blue Colors were Orange! I wish I had though to take screen shots, as after the update I upgraded the NVIDIA web driver and restarted and everything was back to normal.This is awesome news if this continues in the future, as it makes it much easier to upgrade to the latest NVIDIA web driver. I hope it just wasn't a fluke.
So 10.11.2 came out, and I am still unable to log into Messages with iCloud on my Mac, though it works fine on my iPhone and iPad.So I am on the phone with Apple Tech support. They for sure can see that my MacPro is not authorized. We went through signing out my iPad and iPhone of Messages, Facetime and iCloud and then signing back in, but that didn't help.I was then moved to a level 2 tech, who sent me and apple application called Capture Data, and had me try to log into Messages with it collecting packets, and I sent the info to Apple and they will be contacting engineers.They were very nice and I am supposed to hear back Monday. Fingers crossed that they can figure this out. Seems like it has to be on their end, as it worked fine before El Capitan and the weirdest part to them as well is that it still happens on my clean install of the OS.
So I have still not got iMessages to work in El Capitan and I have to Log into iCloud every time I restart or it doesn't work, but this is about iTunes.After getting my iTunes back working, but losing all of my playlists and Metadata, I have been working on re-rating my tracks, and remaking my playlists.What is interesting, and scary to me is as I rate more tracks, iTunes slows down more and more, and I am getting more and more beachballs. Basically I listen to a track and give it rating then skip to the next track, and often it starts playing the new track, but doesn't show it in the interface for a while and I get the beachball for a bit before I can rate the next track. And as I rate more tracks and remake more playlists it gets worse.I just hope once I am done (as I am only in B so far) that it doesn't slow down to the speed of my old messed up Library. I thought the new clean library would just stay faster, but it seems to be getting slower the more work I do on it!This is really scary as it shows that the slowdowns are indemic in iTunes code with large libraries and a large metadata collection.It means Apple really needs to start over on iTunes and rewrite the code from the base up, but that is a scary prospect as it will likely break much of the functionality that exists (and they have already been losing more and more functionality over time), and create new issues for a while.Honestly I just hate to have to put all the time into fixing my iTunes only to see it be slow and hard to use again.
My TIVO Premiere XL had started having issues, it was pixelating and randomly pausing, which are signs that the hard drive is failing. My TIVO is way out of warranty, and last time I called TIVO for this issue with my previous Series 3 TIVO, they told me to buy a new one. Well right now we can't afford a new TIVO, and especially not a TIVO and moving over my lifetime service (which they don't offer on their site, but I was certainly going to call them and get it), plus since I have the XL if I got a new TIVO I would really like a PRO model, and there is no Pro Model of the TIVO Bolt, only of the previous generation ROMIO.So I decided to try and repair my TIVO by replacing the drive, and doing it with a bigger capacity. I did this with the help of two sites, Ross Walker's excellent guide to Upgrading or Rescuing a TIVO, and the Tivo Community forum thread on the awesome JMFS Live CD that Walker tells you to use.Now it was not without issues, firstly because I have a Mac, and it would not boot off the JMFS Live CD, and to get around this I used Parallels to run the JMFS Live CD in emultation, though this meant I had to connect the drives externally so I could get them to mount in Parallels (i have a Sonnet SATA card, but the drives show up as internals so I couldn't get them to mount). At first I tried to use 2 external drive housings, that the drives just plug into, but one was USB 3 (and my USB 3 card no longer works with OS X EL Captian) so it was really slow and kept failing after 24 hours.After this I tried using the Ubuntu method to just do the copy, but couldn't get that to work as the drives would not show up in it in parallels, so I gave up and went back to the JMFS live CD in Parallels. So I put one drive in an OWC housing and tried that, but still I got failures. So I put both drives in OWC housings, with a lot of space around them and pointed a Vornado at them to cool them down. On my fifth try it succeeded. This is after it succeeded and trying to fix failed blocks, which it changed from 469K to only 29K, nice job JMFS! This it almost completed showing the higher errors. And with JMFS, after the copy I was able to expand, and supersize the drive. The commands to activate the Accoustic and Sound management (got errors) but it is a brand new drive, and a 3TB WD Green Drive, so I am not worried.I put the new drive in and started my TIVO and it did 2 restarts with noise, and then did it's full startup and all my shows and record settings made it over, and it…
I have been getting problems in El Capitan running out of application memory (and I have 24 GB of RAM and am not running many programs). I checked Activity Monitor and it seems that Apple Mail is the culprit and is eating all of my memory and run time.I did a google search and came up with this Apple Discussion on the issue. It seems that Mail is loading all of it's log files into RAM and compressing them into ZIP files. You can at least temporarily fix the problem by deleting your log files at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Logs/Mail/ with Mail closed.And the problems continue with El Capitan!
If you read my blog you know I have been having a nightmare of a time with El Capitan, and the latest is iTunes.I have a huge library with over 40,000 tracks and many videos. Now honestly I have been some issues with iTunes for the last 6 months, but that was a very different situation. Years back I decided my iTunes Library was too big to keep within my MacPro, so I had gotten a Synology DS212j NAS to hold my Library. It had 2 3 Terrabyte Hard Drives in a mirrored Raid 1 configuration, with my Library kept locally. There had been some issues moving media because of the different drive file formats (Character Case), but mostly it went well and worked fairly well for a while.The first problem was all the sudden I lost a bunch of files, and they had been put in a strange folder and renamed. I got in touch with Synology and someone admitted that it was the synology, but never helped. Eventually I tuned off the Synology Cloud Sync app, and it fixed the issue, though I had to re-import all the messed up songs. The synology then worked fine for years, until...One day I noticed my tracks on playlists on my iPod had gotten weird, so I went into iTunes and realized something had happened to my whole library. While my raitings were still there, 75% of my playlists were completely messed up, with randomized songs, and even worse much of the library was messed up. Not only were many tracks showing up as another song, and when you played them they came back to life as their old song. There were strange doubled tracks, and on the Synology even weirder stuff was going on.Many tracks had become folders, with the track missing, and completely other songs within the folder from elsewhere in my library.This is an example. And this was all over my library.Not only that but tracks were gone and were listed, but were other things like PNGs.Or even JS files.And many video files were renamed to different files, or sometimes even different file types. So a video would show up as audio, or audio as video. And some files are just completely missing.And my Time Machine Library backup had the same issues, so it must have happened a week or two earlier and I didn't notice until I synced my iPod!Literally my whole Library was a mess!I moved the whole thing back to an internal drive, and let iTunes Organize it, but it still left many files on the NAS, though they should have all been copied locally. And I had to manually add back all the files that were put into strange folders within my library. I literally spent the last 6 months fixing it. Deleting all of my playlists and fixing them, and using TuneSpan to figure out which tracks weren't local and moving them local manually. Finally I had all my files locally in the…
I am posting my iTunes Spindump from iTunes burning my CPU to try to get it fixed, so I am posting it here. Date/Time: 2015-10-30 18:06:05 -0700OS Version: Mac OS X 10.11.1 (Build 15B42)Architecture: x86_64Report Version: 19 Command: iTunesPath: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesVersion: 12.3.1 (12.3.1.23)Build Version: 2Project Name: iTunesSource Version: 1200012003001023Parent: launchd [1]PID: 724 Event: cpu usage (microstackshots only)Thread: 0x99dc (89% cpu over 102 seconds)Duration: 102.00sSteps: 100 Hardware model: MacPro4,1Active cpus: 16 Fan speed: 1327 rpm Powerstats for: iTunes [724] thread 0x99dcUUID: 89930B69-4818-3148-B8D9-56EB65C5C28DStart time: 2015-10-30 18:06:08 -0700End time: 2015-10-30 18:07:46 -0700Parent: launchdMicrostackshots: 43 samples (43%)Primary state: 43 samples Frontmost App, User mode, Thread QoS User InteractiveUser Activity: 0 samples Idle, 43 samples ActivePower Source: 0 samples on Battery, 43 samples on AC 43 start + 1 (libdyld.dylib) [0x7fff8fb075ad] 43 ??? (iTunes + 8910016) [0x10a3ed4c0] 43 -[NSApplication run] + 231 (AppKit) [0x7fff9991eb65] 43 -[NSApplication finishLaunching] + 354 (AppKit) [0x7fff9991f022] 43 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 66 (Foundation) [0x7fff8d3600fa] 43 _CFXNotificationPost + 693 (CoreFoundation) [0x7fff93525925] 43 -[_CFXNotificationRegistrar find:object:observer:enumerator:] + 1922 (CoreFoundation) [0x7fff935266d2] 43 ___CFXNotificationPost_block_invoke + 50 (CoreFoundation) [0x7fff93569912] 43 _CFXRegistrationPost + 407 (CoreFoundation) [0x7fff93569ba7] 43 ___CFXRegistrationPost_block_invoke + 63 (CoreFoundation) [0x7fff93569c2f] 43 __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12 (CoreFoundation) [0x7fff93569c9c] 41 ??? (iTunes + 6391274) [0x10a1865ea] 41 ??? (iTunes + 6365930) [0x10a1802ea] 41 ??? (iTunes + 8751069) [0x10a3c67dd] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9629611) [0x10a49cfab] 41 ??? (iTunes + 2493126) [0x109dceac6] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9343854) [0x10a45736e] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9344851) [0x10a457753] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9267015) [0x10a444747] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9366605) [0x10a45cc4d] 41 ??? (iTunes + 2207291) [0x109d88e3b] 41 ??? (iTunes + 2134647) [0x109d77277] 41 ??? (iTunes + 2457875) [0x109dc6113] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9343854) [0x10a45736e] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9344851) [0x10a457753] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9267015) [0x10a444747] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9366605) [0x10a45cc4d] 41 ??? (iTunes + 2383951) [0x109db404f] 41 ??? (iTunes + 2384211) [0x109db4153] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9506337) [0x10a47ee21] 41 ??? (iTunes + 2369361) [0x109db0751] 41 ??? (iTunes + 2377627) [0x109db279b] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9506486) [0x10a47eeb6] 41 ??? (iTunes + 10003040) [0x10a4f8260] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9984753) [0x10a4f3af1] 41 ??? (iTunes + 9993163) [0x10a4f5bcb] 41 ??? (iTunes + 3543453) [0x109ecf19d] 41 ??? (iTunes + 13745676) [0x10a889e0c] 41 ??? (iTunes + 13751739) [0x10a88b5bb] 41 ??? (iTunes + 13752703) [0x10a88b97f] 41 ??? (iTunes + 13709309) [0x10a880ffd] 23 ??? (iTunes + 13705429) [0x10a8800d5] 18 ??? (iTunes + 11954139) [0x10a6d47db] 4 ??? (iTunes + 11954152) [0x10a6d47e8] 3 ??? (iTunes + 15014107) [0x10a9bf8db] 1 ??? (iTunes + 11954136) [0x10a6d47d8] 15 ??? (iTunes + 13705394) [0x10a8800b2] 6 ??? (iTunes + 11954139) [0x10a6d47db] 5 ??? (iTunes + 11954152) [0x10a6d47e8] 2 ??? (iTunes + 15014107) [0x10a9bf8db] 1 ??? (iTunes + 15014122) [0x10a9bf8ea] 1 ??? (iTunes + 15014109) [0x10a9bf8dd] 1 ??? (iTunes + 15014094) [0x10a9bf8ce] 2 ??? (iTunes + 11954136) [0x10a6d47d8] 1 ??? (iTunes + 11954144) [0x10a6d47e0] 1 ??? (iTunes + 15014088) [0x10a9bf8c8] 3 ??? (iTunes + 13705889) [0x10a8802a1] 3 ??? (iTunes + 8381776) [0x10a36c550] 2 CFStringCompareWithOptionsAndLocale + 9083 (CoreFoundation) [0x7fff934eb39b] 2 _CFCompareStringsWithLocale + 6189 (CoreFoundation) [0x7fff935a7fbd] 1 __CompareTextDefault + 102 (CoreFoundation) [0x7fff935a81d6] 1 icu::RuleBasedCollator::setAttribute(UColAttribute, UColAttributeValue, UErrorCode&) + 387 (libicucore.A.dylib) [0x7fff9d517c63] 1 icu::CollationFastLatin::getOptions(icu::CollationData const*, icu::CollationSettings const&, unsigned short*, int) +…