shartshooter

Lately I've gotten into creating music and use tools like Logic to generate .wav files.

Every time I open a new .wav file it defaults to Apple Music.

If I go to a given file and right click and select "open with application" I'm able to choose VLC. Great right?

Except, that ONLY applies to that specific file. The prompt at the top of the Finder says "Choose an application to open the document “my_wav_file.wav”."

Shouldn't I be able to EASILY set VLC as my default for every .wav file that I open?

This feels like a dark pattern. Apple is making it counterintuitive for me to set a default application that is not Apple's and I'm guessing that files I upload to Apple Music somehow end up on their servers and are processed by them(maybe that's a bit of a tin-foil stretch, but you get my point).

I had seen a service in the past where, if you're emailing me for the first time, it asks you to do one of two things:

1) verify that you know me by answering a simple question

2) make a donation to a cause I care about so your email goes through

I'm pretty diligent about unsubscribing from all the crummy business newsletters I somehow get signed up for, but am looking for something a bit more aggressive.

In short: I'm looking for a service to keep out all emails except for the few senders I care about