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Stop the Apple Music app from launching
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Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#162Would also love to stop the dictionary app from opening
Also the ability to uninstall bloatware like Chess. When I switched my browser away from Chrome I kept typing "c, h, return" in spotlight out of habit and kept opening Chess.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#163brew install notunes
Another fix for this bollocks
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think they’re wrong for this, though I’d read a steelman of why not
There’s a strong argument for tight integration-the argument for NOT allowing customization is much weaker.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Turning off the cloud service just does the syncing thing right? What about turning off the Apple Music service so that the only thing visible is your local content? That's what pisses me off the most.
That's what I meant by cloud services. It hides the Apple Music part so it defaults to your local stuff.
Thought if I remember correctly, search was still showing it, which was a little annoying. But it depends on how much you search.
I'm currently using the service right now, so I can't really check if anything has changed since last year when I was doing it.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#166https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes
this is the OG app.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why vibe code anything? VLC would fit the bill. Even quicktime.
It's mostly that I want my own list management, key combinations, navigation, etc. Once the entire UI is my oyster, I realized I don't have to settle for how someone else decided to lay out the menus, etc. 25 years ago I would just learn all the key combos and be set, but 12 major iterations later, few to zero of those UI skills and muscle memory state has survived. So now, I can do my own and no one can take it away…
I strongly recommend going this route (speaking from experience).
It is shockingly easy to build an opinionated UI for these things in a web browser. You need to implement m3u generation (or use a js web player), and some sort of hierarchical hyperlink based nav that matches your muscle memory. You should be able to use an existing service to grab cover art and metadata for newly ripped disks (unless those services disappeared over the years).
If you want to use a native GUI/TUI toolkit, I’d be shocked if an LLM had any trouble laying it out after a few rounds of refinement. (It definitely will not have any trouble doing this for web stuff.)
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Turning off the cloud service just does the syncing thing right? What about turning off the Apple Music service so that the only thing visible is your local content? That's what pisses me off the most.
I've only ever used Apple Music with local content. On iOS the only indication to me that non-local content is even possible is the radio tab at the bottom of the screen.
On MacOS I think it opens to the online home page, but I use it so infrequently I'm not sure. I pretty much only use it to buy music from iTunes.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#169There is another app called notunes that I have been using for ages.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
iTunes and iPhoto both. Given how good the tools are getting, and how much existing sample code is available, it seems likely someone will do a good job of reincarnating them in the near future. Apple broke the apps I used most on the Mac and then they added the bubblicious design crime UI, no thanks.
I found a WinAmp clone, written in Swift and AppKit, in the App Store yesterday. It was a month old, and from the description (ex. "No Electron, no bloat." and "No telemetry, no tracking, no accounts") it was almost certainly vibe coded. All the things it was saying were things I like, but written in a very AI way.
I think this is going to finally bring about the year of the open source desktop.
I’ll happily install that if I can see the source code, read it all in a sitting, and it is not terrible.
(Note that, in this model, if I want to futz with key bindings or other UI tweaks, I can just ask an LLM to change it. No configuration UI required! Just like evilwm.)