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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.
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?
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YouTube does respond to it though?
sometimes you can have a youtube video that is paused, and you hit play/pause button thinking it will unpause it but for whatever reason that video seems to not be registering as being unpausable so OSX thinks there is nothing to unpause, so it opens itunes, it's one of the reasons apple was cited under geneva convention violations for unusual weaponry last year
After I discovered my Mac Mini was downloading animated wallpapers until filling up 80Gb of space, then doing it all over again every time I reboot, I decided I'd had enough and installed LuLu firewall and blocked every outbound to apple.com. I don't use any of their services anyway, and some of them approach malware suspicion (keyboard input analytics daemon??)
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
I wish it were that simple. ~: sudo chmod -x /Applications/Music.app chmod: /Applications/Music.app: No such file or directory ~: sudo chmod -x /System/Applications/Music.app chmod: Unable to change file mode on /System/Applications/Music.app: Operation not permitted (Mac OS Tahoe 26.5)
% ls -la /System/Applications/Music.app/Contents/MacOS/Music
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If there’s no media session available, “play” isn’t an action that makes any sense, so it shouldn’t do anything IMO.
Yeah, right? Seems obvious to me. If I press "Backspace" and there is nothing to go back to, or to remove, I expect the key to do nothing. Same for Escape, or Volume Up, or whatever. If it can't do what's expected, it does nothing. Feels like at one point all the people who spent decades building OSes and desktop environment left Apple and Microsoft, and the people left are brand new developers who only been using co…
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 wish I believed in software hell because then I would be happy knowing that’s where iTunes existed.
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But why wouldn't pressing the Play button, when no media session is available, not open the music player?
You can't uninstall Apple Music as far as I am aware, so it is not just a "music player" but a specific app, which I personally don't use. For the play button I at least see the point, but it opens it when you insert an audio CD, for example. Even Windows asks what to do in a notification.
Internet Explorer bundling was an instruction manual!