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Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by socalgal2 »

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…

That's the difference? I still use the Music app and it still behaves exactly as it did before they renamed it. I do not subscrbe to Apple Music. I still have my entire digital music libray in iTunes/Music and it functions as it always did.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

#132

Post by some_random »

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.

Are you kidding me? You are not being "press ganged", when you try to play music the music player shipped with the OS is opened.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by emaro »

I tried to stop this a while ago and searching the internet did not yield great results, so I ended up creating a Shortcut that runs when the Music app opens to close it again. This actually worked well until that time I wanted to use the Music app for real.

So annoying and not great UX from Apple imo. Thanks for this.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

#134

Post by antoineMoPa »

parl_match wrote: post #48
antoineMoPa wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It cannot assume which media player I want to use, so the best course of action is to do nothing.

It's very reasonable that pressing "play" opens the default music player. They should let you choose.

There are multiple different sources that the user might want to start playing. Browser tab A/B/C (example: web radios), a music application or music service website in a tab that's not even opened yet (eg: spotify), the last video tab they opened (ex: youtube).

Whatever is the last thing that was paused should play IMHO. If nothing was paused, it should do nothing. Else, you open a pandora's box of possibly wrong choices that the user then has to close.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by awakeasleep »

some_random wrote: post #132
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.

Are you kidding me? You are not being "press ganged", when you try to play music the music player shipped with the OS is opened.

your point would carry more weight were it possible to switch the default music player

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

#136

Post by LollipopYakuza »

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?

Spotify is open almost all of the time for me. If no song is playing, it's likely that it's paused. So I press play expecting it to resume, and sometimes Spotify is actually just not open.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by selectnull »

some_random wrote: post #132
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.

Are you kidding me? You are not being "press ganged", when you try to play music the music player shipped with the OS is opened.

Apple Music can not be uninstalled. That's pretty much "press ganged" in my book.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

#138

Post by okamiueru »

ryandrake wrote: post #71
embedding-shape wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

No other key on my keyboard opens an application. I don't see why there should be one special key that operates that way.

The insufferable part is not letting you disable it.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

#139

Post by dylan604 »

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.

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.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by gausswho »

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??)
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