Stop the Apple Music app from launching
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Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
or turn it off entirely because guess what? Most people are accidently hitting this play/pause button or they hit it thinking youtube is going to respond and instead they get Apple's seriously shite music player. classic apple no respect for me and my choices.
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
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#103I still use itunes for music that I've purchased. But all the features now push you towards streaming and its exhausting.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#104Just uninstall it! Mac is simple if you know how to use it!
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#105> The app does absolutely no work in the background. It works by simply existing as a running process, thanks to having the same bundle identifier as the Music app. I love clever, low-or-no-code engineering solutions like this. You typically need to understand a systems very deeply to reach this level of elegance. In this case, one has to understand exactly what happens when the play button is pressed in Mac OS, how…
On the contrary, this feels like a great (hypothetical) example of how to use coding agents effectively. > Codex as of right now would write some overpowered application that polls in a loop looking for Music App starts and killing them Most human engineers would also do this. It's a relative rarity to find someone writing things this elegantly. Similarly, if you asked an agent to "Stop the Apple Music app from launc…
This is true. Outcomes correlate with the quality and depth of the conversation. The quality and depth correlates with the users understanding of computers
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#106for me it's when I open an audio file and it automatically launches it AND adds it to my music library, the adding to library is what I hate, then I have to delete it and specifically choose "Keep file"
This was annoying to me too but it is pretty easy to fix. Just right click on the .mp3 or whatever file, Get Info and change the default application to your preferred app and then click on "Change all..." You have to do it once per file type but it's once and done.
Yes, at least in theory changing this is straight forward. Though:
>You have to do it once per file type but it's once and done.
I will note I have one Mac with one old user account where it will not remember this anymore across reboots (across macOS 15, plan to skip 26 and hope 27 is acceptable). I haven't had time to try to get into why, but it's occasionally irritating.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh man, throwback to when they forced the U2 albums on to everyone’s device for ReasonsTM
It's not even a throwback. That U2 album still shows up if I accidentally open Apple Music. I haaaaate it. I disliked U2 before any of this, but now I have absolutely sworn to never ever listen to any of their music. Google did the same thing with Transformers 2 I think. It still shows up as Purchased for me even though I absolutely did not purchase that. Good way to ensure I never ever watch any Transformers movie!
There was a website to remove it completely from your library, it launched in 2014 and was up for many years, but is now gone.
These days you can delete the album from your library and set the Music app to not automatically download your purchases. If you want to go an extra mile, you can login to your iTunes account to view your purchases and hide it there too.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
cough cough hey EU you hearing this shit?
If you for whatever reason do not want the security benefits offered by SIP, you can turn it off. Of course, doing so just to get rid of Apple Music would tend to be a bit crazy.
I'd say having to turn off System Integrity Protection as a prerequisite to uninstalling a music player is crazy. Spoken as someone who likes MacOS and Apple Music.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#109It'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?
One scenario:
1. You have an iPhone, a Macbook, and AirPods.
2. You are listening to a podcast or song on your iPhone using your AirPods.
3. You press your AirPods stem to pause the podcast or song on your iPhone.
4. You press your AirPods again, expecting to continue the podcast or song on your iPhone.
5. Your AirPods are now connected to your Mac, which is opening Apple Music. This takes a long time to complete.
Note that you can not remove the Music app from MacOS without serious compromises to MacOS. It is a slow, awful resource hog that I personally never want to use, and it rubs me the wrong way. My impression of Apple is much lower for it.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#110It'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?
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.