This is pretty rudimentary, but apparently our robot overlords need me to write this post because many of them suggested some truly bizarre approaches, some of which don’t work at all. If you’re using AVQueuePlayer, then just use AVPlayerLooper. Easy. But if for some reason you want to use AVPlayer specifically (e.g. you need to… Read more
The error “com.apple.ImageCaptureCore error -9934” during import (e.g. from an iPhone) can be caused by a lot of things, according to the Internet: Basically it seems like this “-9934” error is a catch-all for any kind of I/O error. Good job, Apple, in providing useful information to your users. But add to the aforementioned list… Read more
First, make sure you really want to. macOS’s screen saver system is absurdly buggy and broken. It’s frustrating to work with and very difficult to make work right. If you’re determined, read on. Screen savers are basically just applications. Same bundle format and structure, just with a “saver” extension instead of “app”. Setting up the… Read more
I recently replaced a horrible, dodgy Zoom H4n with a Tascam Portacapture X8, for recording (primarily) theatre and music performances. One of the appeals was 32-bit floating-point recording which was literally promised to eliminate concerns about input levelling, clipping, and noise: The reality is, with 32-bit float recording you can turn on your recorder, hit… Read more
Apple does provide these instructions, although they were annoyingly hard to find (in no small part because the page title is only incidentally related to the task). In short: My projects are already covered by Time Machine and other backup mechanisms, and I tried to tolerate Final Cut Pros built-in backup system, but the damn… Read more
Bad horse, bad horse,
He rides across the nation,
The thoroughbred of sin… Read more
For nearly a month now, Backblaze has been fixated on a particular file of mine, that happens to be over 1 TB in size. Backblaze seemingly uploads it completely, but then on the next backup it uploads it again, even though it has not changed (in eight years!). Ad infinitum. Using their Explainfile tool to… Read more