Apple really messed up Playlists in Sonoma on Mac, why no more album artwork?

So Apple Music in Sonoma has had a major change to playlists, and it literally removes features in favor of making your own ugly generic playlist covers, that literally no one wants. And it used to take 4 albums that were in the playlist and make that the cover, but nothing with covers is even an option anymore, except adding your own. And if you make playlists out of a single album, it used to take the name of the album, but now you have to type it in yourself, and it won't take the album artwork or allow you to paste the artwork you copied from it's own artwork tab, you have to select from a file or from photos. So if I put in a new album, I have to put the album artwork on the track, then add it to the playlist too? WTF APPLE! The new ploylist window with the ugly generic art you can chose and what you type shows up over it. The add your own artwork (no option to use existing artwork). You can drag artwork to the plus or choose a file or from library, but nothing to chose album artwork, WTF! I consistently feel like Apple puts people in charge who have never used the software, or aren't long term users, or don't see why people liked the old behavior. There is a thread on this at Apple, but since Apple doesn't read their own forums, who really cares? The problem is this needs to get out to the tech press, so that Apple actually sees about it and sees that people care about this, but with people just talking on the forum that they don't even read it will never get seen. Hopefully people will at least post some feedback and get this out there.

OWC Rocket Yard on it’s fastest portable drive now with USB4!

OWC’s latest drive is USB4, so it supports USB4, USB 3.2, USB 2 AND Thunderbolt 3 & 4, which is $119.99 empty and up to $1299.99 for an 8TB. I just find it exciting for future OWC products to all be USB 4 so compatible with everything. And according to Mac Performance Guide the large version is fast, faster than internal Mac Pro drives!

CUT/DAILY #375 Meets Editor Christopher Chow

His latest feature film as editor, Raging Grace, won both the Best Debut Award and Grand Jury Award at SXSW 2023, making it the first British film ever to win the Grand Jury prize at SXSW in its 36-year history! Cut/Daily #375 A great interview and creator of the BEAM NETWORK. A platform to connect and support British East and South East Asians working behind the scenes in the media industry.

StopTheScript for Safari, is my new go to extension

From Jeff Johnson of Underpass App Company, this works in safari in iOS and Mac. This app stops Javascript from running on pages, and I use it to block sites that make you turn off content blockers before you can view the site. I know sites need revenue, but random ads only annoy me, and some of that is that I edit commercials, so I know the tricks and they just annoy me! So i block them and making me turn off my content blockers annoys me even more! This takes a little effort and a little work, but it does what it says (and some pages break when you stop the scripts), and I love it.

CUT/DAILY #374 – After Effects for Everyone

After Effects is actually one of the most valuable creative programs to learn as an editor. CUT DAILY #374 - After Effects for Everyone It is so true, every editor should know After Effects. Honestly I mostly don’t even consider doing any graphics in my NLE and just jump into after effects, but I have also been using it for well over 20 years now, and am always learning something new. So spend sone time and learn something new.