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Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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On the plus side in MacOS 27, once it is playing, dragging the playhead makes it grumpy and to fix it you get to quit or go full screen:

- Media Playback Known Issues: In apps like TV, Podcasts, and Music, the window controls may become unresponsive after dragging the playhead to adjust the playback position. (177984877)

- Workaround: Use keyboard shortcuts or the menu bar to close, minimize, or enter full screen mode.

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Super clunky compared to the imminently more practical workaround for wrong-size gifs in Messages, STOP LOOKING AT IT:

- Messages Known Issues: GIFs and pasted images might render as the incorrect size. (177657977)

- Workaround: Scroll until that message is offscreen

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Lovely. I don't press the play button by mistake much, but if i touch my BT headphones wrong...

I actually had to look at my keyboard as I'd forgotten there even was a play button.

My mac opens Music for func + enter. Sometimes I accidentally have the function button held down as I hit enter. Then whatever app I’m trying to use to type loses its focus to this app I never use.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

A similar scourge is encroaching on Google-branded android phones, as they add mandatory apps to cover stuff like supporting earbuds you don't own.

Are you talking about the pixel buds app? They ask you on setup if you want it installed, and you can uninstall it anytime. Seems pretty far from "mandatory".

Yes, that's the example I had in mind.

> you can uninstall it anytime

I'm sure it tells you that... but did you actually try?

The "uninstall" button is a lie: You cannot remove the app, you can only roll it back to some mandatory minimum version.

> Do you want to uninstall all updates to this Android System app?

If you "uninstall", the app still exists, and your only choice is to surrender and update it again. So yes, that "system app" is (as far as Google is concerned) absolutely "mandatory" on my phone.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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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…

The Music app reads the same library and has the same core music-oriented functions as iTunes. Is the interface what you're missing?

My main complaints are that it’s clearly store and subscription first, local music and playlists a distant second. Still works however.
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