macOS Sonoma: All the little things!

[mrfunnypenguin]

How many GB, or possibly MB do each of the video wallpapers use?

 

[adamlbiscuit]

How many GB, or possibly MB do each of the video wallpapers use?

It varies between about 300 MB - 800 MB depending on the video length. They all appear to be 4k but some appear higher quality than others despite being the same resolution.

 

[mrfunnypenguin]

It varies between about 300 MB - 800 MB depending on the video length. They all appear to be 4k but some appear higher quality than others despite being the same resolution.

Thank you! Good to know!

 

[tehabe]

macOS supports FLAC for a while now but it can't display the embedded cover art, I wonder if someone at Apple fixed that for Sonoma.

 

[otetzone]

Sorry, wrong thread.. Moved my question here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-14-rc-2-bug-fixes-changes-and-more.2403683/post-32529033

 

[MrWeenus]

New wallpapers have been pushed OTA. Just reboot the system and they should pop up.

 

[APCX]

macOS Ventura already ships a software AV1 decoder and AV1 hardware decoder plugin. But the software decoder is not enabled by default, and I don't know if the hardware decoder is already used on some hardware or not to decode AVIF at least. 13.4 creates preview for AV1 .mp4 files in Finder now.
I did not test macOS 14 yet, but there is a new framework to create format readers and video decoders plugins: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaextension

Probably won't be needed for AV1, but it can be used for other formats.

Ahh damn. It seems like this is now gone from Apple’s site.

 

[Nermal]

Ahh damn. It seems like this is now gone from Apple’s site.

Looks like it was removed a few weeks ago with zero fanfare.

 

[APCX]

Looks like it was removed a few weeks ago with zero fanfare.

Ahh man. I was really looking forward to that. I wonder if it’s gone for good.

 

[matthewadams]

Not sure if posted yet, but when Screen-Sharing the whole desktop macOS automatically hides the widgets, so only you see them but not the participants (verified on Zoom).

 

[galad]

Menus have been rewritten in AppKit, and the timing of the fade animation and the double blink animation when an item is selected changed. The double blink seems faster.

 

[zakarhino]

Anyone else noticed that scrolling is a lot more accelerated/slippery? Web pages in Chrome are scrolling further within the same flick on the trackpad as macOS 13 so it must be something OS related. Actually come to think of it I remember scrolling felt slower and had a lot more friction when I upgradad to macOS 13 so maybe they've reverted the scrolling behavior back to macOS 13 and prior.

 

[Luckygreek]

Apple is putting the current build in "About", finally.
System Setting is still a little off, like a click behind, randomly.
killall Dock with Terminal occasionally, as sometimes it's unresponsive after a restart.

 

[thingstoponder]

Wasn’t it already there? I upgraded both Mac’s so I can’t check.

 

[Luckygreek]

Wasn’t it already there? I upgraded both Mac’s so I can’t check.

Yep you're right, I completely missed it. It was Ventura on a different drive, my bad.

Edit:
So I went back and checked older builds and they didn't include builds, thought I was losing my mind.
Build 23A339 and 23A344.

 

[WebHead]

How many GB, or possibly MB do each of the video wallpapers use?

It varies between about 300 MB - 800 MB depending on the video length. They all appear to be 4k but some appear higher quality than others despite being the same resolution.

I noticed the Sonoma download was 4.5GB and wondered if that was mainly the wallpapers.

Meanwhile I've had one spontaneous logout and one failure to sleep, but otherwise smooth sailing.

 

[cool11]

I hope that there will be one day, that a new major update in mac os,
will finally support ntfs write, natively, without the need for any third party application.
A so essential feature in this world we live in, but apple continues to be blind.

 

[Steve Ballmer]

I like that the clock doesn't dim out any more when DND is on. It felt redundant (there was already an icon) and made it harder to read, especially if combined with Night Shift.

 

[Steve Ballmer]

The first thing I thought when I saw that new screensavers is one of the big highlights of Sonoma is that there's probably not much new stuff to talk about.

This is just inevitable. We're at the point where everything, from hardware to software, is endless iteration. Slow, steady improvements. Outside of the work being done with visionOS, I'm just not sure how much farther something like macOS can really be taken. Lock screens and screen savers are this release's big marketable feature, will next year's release focus on new cursors?

 

[djlythium]

Downloaded yesterday, and I have to say that I usually do a full wipe & fresh OS install, but this time I skipped it because, magically, all of my Apple devices are actually working incredibly, almost-unbelievably smoothly together! Installed macOS Sonoma, and everything has been glitch-free. What are the odds?! Never happened to me before.

Also, the smooth-scrolling-to-a-stop desktop background is super slick! I love that! Plus widgets, the OSs are more coherent, which is fantastic!

 

[Nermal]

I've just found that .m2ts files play in QuickTime Player now (this may have worked in 13 as well: I skipped it).

Edit: Seems to depend on the internal format. Some play, but others don't.

 

[SoYoung]

The new accessibility font size for native Apple apps like finder is a great addition, but I'm disappointed it lacks some major apple apps like the music, settings and podcast ones. Hope it'll be add up in feature Somona updates.

 

[MacGizmo]

The new accessibility font size for native Apple apps like finder is a great addition, but I'm disappointed it lacks some major apple apps like the music, settings and podcast ones. Hope it'll be add up in feature Somona updates.

Font size in all Apple apps is way too small if you ask me. In particular, News needs to be either beefed up or have an option to enlarge the fonts to a user-selected amount.

 

[Aggedor]

It does integrate, example:

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This is the source of information – New features available with macOS Sonoma

How do I get this to work on my Mac? I use Apple Music but I don't have (and can't find) any menu bar integrations.

 

[H_D]

Is there any way to remove the Screensavers to save some GB?
Plus - it seems that for my WordClock Screensaver the options cannot be saved anymore, it always resets to the basic settings. On the Studio I was able to change some, not on the MBP.