I haven’t upgraded to Sonoma yet, but I set up a test volume to try out third-party apps. My preliminary tests didn’t reveal any problems, but I’m wondering if there might be anything that I have missed. Is Capo expected to run flawlessly on Sonoma (macOS 14)?
I haven’t been made aware of any issues with the latest Capo release running on macOS Sonoma or (iOS 17) yet, and I can’t think of anything significant that’s changed in the OS that would cause you any trouble right now. [1]
But there is a rather significant change in the OS that will cause me a bunch of trouble. Fortunately, the currently-released version of Capo was built using the macOS 13 SDK, so you have nothing to worry about. However, once I start I building Capo with the macOS 14 SDK, I expect that Capo will be busted in a number of places, and require some rather unpleasant debugging and fixing before it’s operational again. ↩︎
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Thanks, Chris. I hope the macOS 14 SDK switch goes smoother than you expect!
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@jmuscara I don’t suppose you’re running on an Intel-based Mac? If so, is everything still problem-free on your end?
Sorry, all my working Intel-based Macs can’t be upgraded to Sonoma.
You and me, both. Apple dropped the hammer on all my dedicated Intel test machines all at once when Big Sur shipped, and I’ve been stuck in an OS “dead zone” that forces me to do more testing on my daily driver—not ideal!
(This is what I get for buying a too-expensive iMac Pro a few years back, and trying to be fiscally responsible with my upgrade cycle for too long! 
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I hear that.
My 2017 iMac made it to Ventura, but my 2018 MBP died six months after I invested in a new battery for it, thinking that would make it last for years. I’m still … not happy about that, usually Macs last for ages even if they get deprecated by macOS updates.
So now I have a M2 Max Mac Studio and MB Air M2 along with the iMac (as well as a 2010 MBP for really old SW and ripping CDs!). My intention is to have these M2 Macs for a long time but who knows. The 2017 and 2018 Macs should have lasted longer but I guess the switch to Apple Silicon aged the iMac sooner than I expected.
You’re definitely on a sweet new setup! I have high hopes for the M-series Macs given Apple’s track record for the iOS hardware. I think they’d rather have folks kept up-to-date for a longer span than having folks stuck on older OS releases. But you never know…
I have older Macs with CD drives as well, however I have an ancient DVD-RW drive (from ~2006) in a USB-2 enclosure (from ~2008) that still works with my Mac for CD ripping duties! I put it to good work when I built the latest iteration of the Chord Intelligence engine, as a chunk of the audio for my chord recognition training data can only be found on CD.
(Related: I also have old Firewire 400 audio hardware that—with a chain of 3 dongles[1]—still works to this day thanks to its having a bus-compliant audio driver that the manufacturer doesn’t need to provide.)
USB-C → Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt → FW800, FW800 → FW400. ↩︎
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I had a FW 400 audio interface that worked pretty well for as long as I had it, and I may have used a similar adapter chain with it until I sold it. I still have that adapter chain in case I decide to pull out one of my many FW400 hard drives.