I like Apple laptops, but that self-satisfied “Made in California” vibe is just too much. When they started forcing people to watch aerial shots of the Sonoma Valley every time they log in, I decided enough was enough. Eventually it developed into a CLI tool which I use to replace their cheesy videos with something more meaningful to me

Now I can finally play with my local SAM Audio installation and discover just how useful it really is. Meta advertises it as a professional-grade tool, but is it?

Meta recently released SAM-Audio, an exciting new audio LLM capable of separating sounds from complex mixtures using text or visual prompts. Like many research models, it isn’t installable out of the box for macOS users. To get it running on my M1 Mac was a bit of an adventure, but I managed in the end.