@streakmachine One day I should try the Big Beast Burner. It’s a 5.25-in external enclosure with a DL DVD drive in it & connection is via USB 2 or FireWire 400.
I have just repeated the earlier CD rip job done earlier with a USB Superdrive connected to a 2017 13-in MacBook Pro (Escape key) running Monterey.
The difference is I used the 2005 12-in G4 PowerBook running Leopard with identical import settings to the earlier process.
As I suspected, the G4 did the job faster.
I was looking through my Mike Oldfield music collection in Apple Music & realised that his first live album, Exposed, was missing. I searched the iTunes Store & Apple Music for it. No go. Internet search revealed it was not available online due to contractural disagreements between the artist & a couple of record labels.
No problem. I have the two-disc CD version of the album & an Apple USB SuperDrive. I ripped the CD to the MacBook Pro (a lot slower than I recall a G4 iBook performing the same action) and my Apple Music subscription saw it uploaded to my iCloud Music Library where it became available for streaming or downloading to other devices.
It sounds especially good via the 4k apple TV connected to a stereo pair of original big HomePods.
Managed to get my hair cut today - first time since July. Hairdressers were closed during lockdown. My hair grows thick & fast, it was really feral, more so since I’d “trimmed” the front & sides myself with scissors. I chose a 1-inch long buzz cut right at a time when we have unseasonal cold & wet weather. So now I'm wearing a woolly hat…
@jws I have Pinpoint installed on my Macs. Since 2005 I have been using a license from the Mac User Group ‘cos that’s when I came on board as a regular interest group co-ordinator.
// @streakmachine
One nice feature of Monterey is the ability in Accessibility to change the colour of the cursor pointer. I’m using gold with a black outline, makes it very difficult to lose its place on the screen.