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Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by senderista »

hedora wrote: post #98
titzer wrote: post #66

I still can't believe they killed iTunes. I used to have my entire digital music library in iTunes. Most of that was music I had ripped myself from CD, but I had a handful of albums I bought of iTunes and even some TV shows. When they wholesale abandoned iTunes and deleted from Mac OS in favor of...whatever Apple Music is, I knew I'd never trust them again. I searched for some decent mp3 players for a while, and even…

I had an OO perl replacement for iTunes back in the day (to learn OO perl, mostly). It had a web frontend, and also handled ripping and cd metadata with “insert disk, up arrow enter”. It failed to eject the disk iff there was a problem with the rip / transcode / metadata. I had 3-4 CDROMs in a desktop for parallelism. Maybe I should have an LLM port to rust. It was under a thousand lines of code.

`bless` your heart

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by mihaaly »

letrix wrote: post #34
riazrizvi wrote: post #28

It's very sad to see Apple using these lowbrow Microsoft tactics. Press ganging your users into launching your other shit product is brand cannibalism.

But why wouldn't pressing the Play button, when no media session is available, not open the music player?

Because this f%#n sh*t is jumping at you and is in your way promoting itself and want to configure and engage right away, or start some random item remained there when you in interim loss of your senses tried this crap, every time you press play instead of 8 or 9 by mistake, accidentally! But you don't want to start it, ever, anyway, that's why!

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by auxiliarymoose »

al_borland wrote: post #79
titzer wrote: post #66

I still can't believe they killed iTunes. I used to have my entire digital music library in iTunes. Most of that was music I had ripped myself from CD, but I had a handful of albums I bought of iTunes and even some TV shows. When they wholesale abandoned iTunes and deleted from Mac OS in favor of...whatever Apple Music is, I knew I'd never trust them again. I searched for some decent mp3 players for a while, and even…

You can turn off the cloud service in Apple Music and still use it with your local tracks and music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store (which still exists). I did this for most of last year. I had all local music in Apple Music, disabled the cloud stuff, and synced it all to my iPhone by plugging it in with a cable, as if it was an old iPod. It all still worked.

Yep, I've been importing CDs to Apple Music (which I buy from my local music store) and adding them to my Android phone for personal listening. It's a great way to spend money on music in a way that supports local businesses!

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by scraft »

bound008 wrote: post #63

PSA: Its Unix. sudo chmod -x /Applications/Music.app edit: sorry about that. this used to work before the Music.app moved to /System/Applications

PSA: don't run random commands people on the internet tell you to run, it turns out those people haven't even run those commands themselves..

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by parl_match »

mritun wrote: post #59
jacobsenscott wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It cannot be uninstalled

^ How can you make such an obviously wrong statement? Drag Music app to Trash, and that it! Like you do with any other app.

^ How can you make such an obviously wrong statement

Go ahead and try. It's not like "any other app".

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by parl_match »

dlev_pika wrote: post #55
jacobsenscott wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It cannot be uninstalled

The (shitty) logic here is that you don’t ‘own’ the OS, but merely rent it, so “deal with it”

You can disable the control that prevents deleting the app (SIP).

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by tolciho »

letrix wrote: post #34
riazrizvi wrote: post #28

It's very sad to see Apple using these lowbrow Microsoft tactics. Press ganging your users into launching your other shit product is brand cannibalism.

But why wouldn't pressing the Play button, when no media session is available, not open the music player?

But why isn't there an easy option to turn the "feature" off? Why the kluges and workarounds for Apple going downhill (Microsoftean is indeed a good term here) for a while now? Same story for the nasty notifiction system, the annoying finder "spacebar may preview some random file hopefully without too many security vulns" (the low contrast design whereby you think Firefox is in foreground but it's actually the Finder is another bad design element that contributes to mixing up what the active app is), etc etc etc

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by bloody-crow »

deinonychus wrote: post #54
letrix wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But why wouldn't pressing the Play button, when no media session is available, not open the music player?

But why wouldn't the OS developer, when many people don't use Apple Music, not offer users the ability to pick what the key does?

Because this OS developer is also trying to sell you their Music service subscription. I'm sure having this setting would hurt some of their internal KPIs and therefore would never be implemented.
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