I just updated to 26 a few months ago on all devices. I’m for sure waiting till well into next year to update MacOS, I might do ios a little sooner.

MacOS 27 won’t apparently deal with HFS+ Encrypted drives anymore and I have to figure out what I want to do with those drives (as APFS is not ideal on spinning disk hard drives, but I may just have to convert them to that format and hope for the best, or just use standard HFS+)

Well now you have another reason to ditch spotify

I’ll check them out, too! Volunteer, listener supported radio is the best.

Still waiting for carplay to come to my rowboat.

If you want real radio, with real people, check out some non-profit community radio stations. I support www.therootsfm.org and www.crstl.fm . They are free to listen to and always ad-free & AI free.

[but there’s plenty more out there, I like to support local and the announcements for local stuff going on]

Yeah me too, I started putting those type albums under the artist , but movie soundtracks and other comps still get filed as compilations.

And for some bands I’ll include solo albums by members as part of the band discography (by putting the band name as album artist), since I would put them on the shelf that way if they were discs. Unless they have a long established solo career, then I don’t bother.

I didn’t know about fre:ac, I’ll have to try it out.

I let iTunes (now Music in Mac) automatically sort folders years ago and this is pretty much how it organizes files. Except for “Various Artists” albums it has a separate Compilations folder. Most tag editors I’ve used besides iTunes/Music have the tag available to tag something a compilation.

For VA comps centered on a particular Album Artist I sometimes just uncheck the compilation tag and instead of Various Artists, I put the main artist the comp deals with in the Album Artist field.

Don’t install the water heater messy, though.