Hi, is there a good BPM calculator for Apple Music?
With iTunes I used a little app called BPMer but it doesn’t run above MacOS Mojave

My father-in-law has been a Mac user for a long time. His old ass Mac can't go beyond El Capitan 10.12 so he can't even get newer mail apps and he lost most of his email when Rogers changed something (removed Apple mail support maybe?). It's also as slow as molasses in January. He is also fidgety so the less things he can poke at that could trigger effects that might be bad seems like a real benefit.
I've noticed in most other areas of life, we've done a crappy job at having simple devices with safety in mind (failures: stoves, TV remotes, software, OSes, UIs/UXs) so if I can't get everything I want, that's just how the world is. Maybe somebody with money should throw $$$ at a distro builder to build one very specifically for old folks. But I digress...
I'm the IT person in the house, but I'm android/Windows/Linux sometimes at work (RHEL) or at home (Xubuntu). Every contact I have with the old Mac makes me break out in aneurysms. I like Ubuntu, but I dislike snaps. I also hate Gnome (Hence Xubuntu for the XFCE).
So I'm looking for a linus distro that has:

• An easy UI (no keyboard shortcuts, ability to limit what shows on drop down menus, no gestures, and large enough text and icons without having having to run at 1024x640 or the like - want to have a 24-27" LED monitor)
• Most actions will be mouse other than writing emails.
• Needs a real IMAP mail client (if there's a Thunderbird build for Linux or the like, that'd be fine).
• Has to have a decent browser (He's been using Chromium but maybe there's a better one - he also has a Gmail account and we're involving him into Goggle Calendar - and we have a Skylight).
• Mostly I expect: Gmail (with the IMAP for bringing down the mail for archiving), Facebook, YouTube, some sent videos, he should have an itunes account somewhere, and he can draw from our storage array that has a lot of music he'd like, software for pulling pics and music from an android phone, audio player (I loved WinAmp back when, but maybe there is something as good now), and some sort of picture roll for a background. Ability to handle PDFs and Word docs are necessary - people send him that stuff.
• Printer drivers for Canon EcoTank printers
• Drivers for 2.5G ethernet
• Backup for networking is some kind of BT or Wifi dongle with driver
• For updates, I'd like an easy approach - I don't want to get stuck in update hell.

Some of what I need is hardware, but I need to be sure the hardware has drivers in the distro I pick. FWIW, I'm in Canada if that has any aspect.
Thoughts?
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Helloooo,
So over the past few days I've scoured through countless replies and posts in this reddit to jailbreak and install the last compatible versions of the apps I often use. This lead me down a wild rabbithole of loose ends for two days, but I managed to get it to work the way I wanted to by piecing together information from all that information I've found. Because I would have loved a comprehensive tutorial on the easiest way to do this for my specific iPad and iOS version, I've decided to be that person who provides this tutorial for anybody else looking to do the same. It's gonna be a bit of a long tutorial, but if you really want your iPad Mini to have some its functionality back, it'll be worth it.

If you have any questions about how to perform certain basic steps, please do your own research first before asking your question. If you have a different iOS, don't bother asking your question, because I only know what I've figured out for iOS 9.3.5 and I cannot help you with your iOS version.

(I genuinely love to help with what I know when you are stuck on a step or need more information, but if it's a question that can be answered by just looking at the information provided in the Wiki, I will not entertain answering either 😘)
Step 1: Jailbreak your iPad Mini
Follow this tutorial by u/whoit61 to jailbreak your iPad Mini 1, but we do not need to use Sideloadly for installing the apps you want. More on that later. Come back to this tutorial once you've jailbroken and installed Cydia on your iPad Mini.
Step 2: Installing necessary tweaks
Now you'll have the following tools installed:

• Phoenix 6 (Jailbreak iOS app)
• Cydia (iOS app to install tweaks and apps)
• BigBoss Repo (huge repository with a lot of useful tweaks you can install.) BigBoss is one of the pre-installed repositories when you install Cydia, but if for some reason you don't have it in your sources, the link to add it is: http://apt.thebigboss.org/repofiles/cydia/

We'll need to install some important tweaks in Cydia to get the rest of this tutorial to work. I'll also list the other optional tweaks here that I've personally installed. I'll provide the URL's of the repositories for these tweaks as well.
Necessary:

• App Admin (Used to manually downgrade certain apps to an earlier version to get them to work, more on this later) - Found in the BigBoss Repo.
• Checkmate, Store! (Used to let you download iOS Apps from the App Store when you'd normally get the message "This App Is Not Compatible With This iPad". Note: this tweak will not help you prevent the message that the App requires a higher iOS to download. If you want to install an app that gives you that message, you're out of luck. You will not be able to download it.) - Link to the repo: http://cydia.invoxiplaygames.uk/
• Filza File Manager (File Manager needed to spoof certain apps to get them to work.) - Found in the BigBoss Repo.
• ReProvision Reborn (iOS app to automatically re-sign app - used to keep Phoenix current.) - Link to the repo: https://repo.satoh.dev/
• iCleaner Pro (iOS system cleanup and utility manager. Used to delete temp-files, cache-files and basically any useless files stored on your iPad. Helps with the limited amount of storage you have.) - Link to the repo: http://cydia.akemi.ai/
• NoGoogleAMP (Tweak that automatically calls "Request Desktop Site" on Google AMP sites, so the original website will load. Used for log-ins to your Google Account.) - Found in the BigBoss Repo.
• Stashing for iOS 9.2-9.3.5 (this helps with storage space issues.) - Link to the repo: http://cydia.akemi.ai/

Optional:

• Activator (Management tool for changing gestures, buttons and shortcuts in iOS) - Found in the BigBoss Repo.
• AppSync Unified (ONLY FOR SIDELOADING, DO NOT INSTALL THIS WHEN YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD LEGITIMATE APPS THROUGH THE APPSTORE, IT WILL INTERVERE WITH APP ADMIN AND CHECKMATE, STORE! WHEN YOU GO TO DOWNLOAD APPS FROM THE APPSTORE!!! iOS tweak for extending the time an app can run, 3 days without it) - Link to the repo: http://cydia.akemi.ai/
• YTHDUnlocker (Unlocks HD Videos in YouTube App, cause let's be real... we don't want to look just at 720p, when our iPad can easily play HD video's...) - Link to the repo: https://julioverne.github.io/
• Vendura iOS [BETA] (Tweak to install a... petty workaround for the YouTube app to be able to watch YouTube video's through the YouTube app. It does not have the same functionality as the true YouTube App, but it's faster than watching it through a browser like Safari, Google Chrome, FireFox or Puffin) - Installing this requires manually following a different tutorial, more on this in Step 5, but leave this be for now. We need to do other stuff first.
• tweakCompatible (Very useful tweak to check if a tweak you want to install in Cydia is compatible with your iOS version or not) - Found in the BigBoss Repo.
• SafariBeBetter (Allows you to change some Safari functionalities) - Found in the BigBoss Repo.
• SafariFix (Will fix reloading issues in Safari) - Found in the BigBoss Repo.
• Preference Organizer 2 (Organizes your Preferences in the Settings app into categories. Useful for following the Vendura iOS tutorial, because it'll look the same as the video tutorial of the creator) - Link to the repo: http://cydia.akemi.ai/

Step 3: How to Review your Apple ID account information when you haven't accessed the App Store on a different iDevice before and are unable to do so
You can skip this step if your Apple ID account has accessed the App Store before, but if you are like me and your new Apple ID hasn't accessed the App Store before, you'll run into a problem. Your iPad will ask you to review your account information, but it will not even let you pass the Terms & Conditions page. The 'Next' button will do nothing. Trying to do the same thing on iTunes via your PC, will also result in not being able to continue after you've filled in your personal information and a payment option. You'll get an error saying that you need to contact Apple for support.
I've found a workaround by logging in to Apple Music via their Webplayer. Note that it'll probably ask you for a Two-Factor-Identification, so keep your iPad on hand to log-in. Once you've logged in to Apple Music go to Settings > Account Settings > Account Summary > Manage Payments. Add a payment option AND your billing adress and save your changes. This will count as reviewing your account information on your iPad Mini as well and you're now able to download Apps through the App Store. Yipppieeeee!!!!
Step 4: Installing the last compatible versions of the apps you want
Whoof, that was already a lot of work. Good job, I'll assume you've got all of the necessary tweaks installed now and your AppleID account information has been reviewed. We'll discuss how you can install the apps you want.
There are 3 paths you can take. I'll focus on the second one, because I do not have an alternative iDevice that I could use to download the Apps I wanted and get them into my Purchased tab.
Think of Sideloading apps onto your iPad Mini as your last possible option of getting the app you want on your iPad Mini, if nothing else works or that app is not available in the App Store anymore at all.

1. Purchase the App in the App Store on a newer iDevice with the minimal required iOS.
2. Purchase the App in the App Store on a Windows computer with iTunes 12.6.3.
   1. I believe there is a workaround to get iTunes 12.6.3 on your iMac, but you'll have to find other people's posts/tutorials on how to do that, sorry. This tutorial is only useful for people with a Windows PC x64 or x32.
   2. Download iTunes 12.6.3 on your PC via the link above. If you have a more recent version of iTunes already installed on your PC, uninstall it and move the iTunes Library.itl file from C:\Users\[user]\Music\iTunes to your Desktop for safekeeping. Once you installed iTunes 12.6.3, it'll make a new library.itl file for you and allows you to access and 'Purchase' apps in the App Store.
   3. Once you have iTunes 12.6.3 installed, log in with your Apple ID and go to the Store tab.
   4. Switch from Music to Apps and now you can search for any Apps you'd wish to install on your iPad Mini. Make sure that your iPad Mini is not connected to your PC with a USB cable. Simple click on '+ Get' to purchase the apps you want.
   5. Now go to the App Store on your iPad Mini and head to the Purchase tab. You can now download the apps by clicking on the cloud-download icon. It'll ask you: "Do you want to download the last compatible version?" Click on Download. It'll download the last compatible version for you.
   6. Bada-bing-bada-boom, you have the app downloaded on your iPad Mini now. Head to Step 5 for a guide on how to get some apps like Reddit and YouTube (and by association, other Google apps) actually working again.
3. Sideload the App with the last compatible IPA using Sideloady. https://sideloadly.io/
   1. READ THE ENTIRE Sideloadly page - there's a ton of useful info and help.
   2. Run the Sideloadly installer on your PC.
   3. Find the last compatible IPA you need at the IPA Archive or look at the resources provided in the FAQ. I'll post the softwareVersionExternalIdentifyers and other useful information about the last compatible apps I've installed in Appendix A at the bottom of this post.

If you want cross-functionality (for example, for you Google account to log in across all your Google Apps, useful for logging into YouTube as well), it is still the best option to download the legitimate Apps through the Appstore, rather than sideloading them through Sideloadly, because sideloading Apps will not give you that cross-functionality for different apps, which is quite useful for the Vendura iOS YouTube workaround.
Step 5: Getting some Apps working again.
I'll provide the information I've gathered on how to sign in to Reddit and to get YouTube to work at all with workarounds. If the app you want to use isn't working after downloading it, go do a deepdive through this reddit to figure out what other people might already have tried and see if that works for you as well!

For this part of the tutorial I only know how to get these to work using the 1st & 2nd method of installing apps as shown in Step 4. These steps will not work the same way if you've sideloaded the apps instead.

• Reddit - works as per May 2024

The Reddit fix will not work if you have Sideloaded the apps. I recommend sideloading the iOS 7.1 IPA of Reddit that you can download here (direct download link) instead for a functional Reddit app.

1. You've downloaded the legitimate last compatible Reddit app from the App Store, but now you cannot log in to your account. You've also installed App Admin like I told you, because you're a good boi™.
2. The last compatible version of Reddit has the softwareVersionExternalIdentifier 825257195. We go back to the App Store now and press and hold on the Reddit app in our Purchased tab to downgrade our Reddit app to 821375001.
3. Now when we open this older version of Reddit, we can log in to our Reddit account(s) and then head back to the App Store to "downgrade" our Reddit App back to 825257195. When the update is done, you'll still be logged into your Reddit account(s). Happy scrolling!

• YouTube using the Vendura iOS workaround

Okay, this is a bit of a long one. Because this tutorial is technically two-fold: 1. How to workaround logging in to your Google account on the YouTube App (and all the other Google Apps you wish to use) and 2. How to get a working YouTube App where you can actually play videos. Spoofing the last compatible version of YouTube to the most recent released YouTube version is not enough to play video's for us, sadly, so we have to either perform this workaround, or just content with the fact that we'll have to watch our video's through a browser like Puffin, Chrome, Firefox or god forbid (I might throw up a little 🤢) Safari. Which are all, to be fair, incredibly slow and annoying when trying to load YouTube pages.
This YouTube workaround will still work if you want to sideload YouTube, but you'll have to sideload the required version of YouTube (v10.11.11546) from the start and you will not be able to log in to your own account, but you'll still be able to search for video's and watch them. You can download the correct IPA here (direct download link).

1. How to workaround logging in to your Google account on the YouTube App (and all the other Google Apps you wish to use) - works as per May 2024.
   1. Purchase the YouTube Kids app through iTunes 12.6.3 or a newer iDevice.
   2. Download the last compatible version of YouTube Kids on your iPad Mini.
   3. Log in to YouTube Kids with your Google account.
   4. Make up a fake kid to use the YouTube Kids account and finish your sign up for YouTube Kids.
   5. Open all the other Google apps you have installed and want to use and make sure they're logged in to your Google account now as well.
2. How to get a working YouTube App where you can actually play videos using Vendura iOS.

Tips to know before following the tutorials for Vendura iOS: add your Google Drive account to Filza and upload the requirement files to your Google Drive for easy access on your iPad Mini.
You have to downgrade your YouTube app to 10.11.11546 with App Admin in the App Store FIRST. The softwareVersionExternalIdentifier for it is 812033351.
There are multiple tutorials on Reddit, GitHub and YouTube on how to install Vendura iOS. I will only post the links to those and you can read/watch and follow the tutorials on your own from there.

• GitHub Tutorial (from the creator u/Puzzleheaded-Quit377 )
• Reddit Tutorial (from the creator u/Puzzleheaded-Quit377 )
• YouTube Tutorial (from the creator u/Puzzleheaded-Quit377 )
• Reddit Tutorial 2 /w the addition of Cephei, extra details & optional tweak suggestions (from u/AndyPea1230 )
• Vendura iOS Patch v1.0 (from u/AnnoyedArt1256 )

Good luck! This workaround works for me. I've used the API-key method and I recommend that version of Vendura iOS, but I'm sure the version without the API-key works just as well. Note: you still cannot click on the video's on the homepage or subscriber page directly, but you can use the Vendura iOS menu to find the video using the title and play it from there!

Appendix A: Last compatible version of Apps for iPad Mini on iOS 9.3.5

Note that these are only the apps that I've personally installed and use quite often.
If you want to know the last compatible version of a FREE app that's still on the App Store, so you can sideload it, let me know in the comments and I'll see if I can download it and give you the information you need!

Chrome
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Discord
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Docs
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Drive
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Google Calendar
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OneDrive
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softwareVersionExternalIdentifier 825554349
Outlook
artistid 298856275
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PowerPoint
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Puffin
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Reddit
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softwareVersionExternalIdentifier 825257195 / 821375001 (for login workaround)
Spotify
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TikTok
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Translate
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Tumblr
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VLC
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Word
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YouTube
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YouTube Kids
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YouTube Music
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