beardedspice VS openmtp

Beardedspice (Free) Mac Media Keys for the Masses, open source, however, the last update was in 2021, so if you have an issue 🤷‍♀️

Try out BeardedSpice[0] which handles the media keys

[0] https://github.com/beardedspice/beardedspice || brew install —cask beardedspice

Media Key Forward still works for me reliably but Bearded Spice is also an alternative.

There needs to be a way to hard-lock F8 to only operate Apple Music. High Sierra Media Key Enabler, later Mac Media Key Forwarder, used to do this. The GitHub suggest using Bearded Spice. I had been using that last year but it seems it's no longer working and the last update was in 2017.

beardedspice

I used this program: https://github.com/ganeshrvel/openmtp which allowed me to drag and drop files

For those on MacOS, you can use a free tool called OpenMTP to do any type of file transfer from your MacOS to Xreal Beam. Supports multiple transfer of APK files. Feel free to give this a try if you prefer downloading all your APK packages to your Mac and transferring them in one go to your Beam. Have fun!

TL;DR - Uninstall Android File Transfer (software hasn't seen an update since 2018), and switch to OpenMTP.

That said, Google's "Android File Transfer" app is not the only app which supports MTP on MacOS. People say good things about OpenMTP but I don't have personal experience with it: https://openmtp.ganeshrvel.com/

I'm using VLC. To transfer the files on to the device I use OpenMTP.

For media, you will need to transfer stuff on an intermediate device via mtp. For Mac you have open mtp https://openmtp.ganeshrvel.com. Linux should support this natively. No idea for Windows.

OpenMTP file transfers for MacOS lovers with Android phones :)