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Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by parl_match »

antoineMoPa wrote: post #134
parl_match wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ch…

> Whatever is the last thing that was paused should play IMHO

That's currently how it works.

This is purely an issue and complaint for when nothing at all was playing or open, and an app hasn't currently registered a handler.

If you land on a fresh desktop from reboot and press play, what should happen?

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by isametry »

xoa wrote: post #106
fnordlord wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I wonder if SwiftDefaultApps might yield different results compared to the Cmd+I menu? It's a crude-yet-still-working preference pane for setting default apps in System Settings, rather than using example files:

https://github.com/Lord-Kamina/SwiftDefaultApps

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by lysace »

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.

They are obsessed with killing Spotify. That’s why they are doing such customer hostile things, despite being Apple.

Similar situation in the past: Microsoft vs Netscape.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by NamlchakKhandro »

jxmorris12 wrote: post #73

> 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…

Myyy codex with my skills would never! Never do such a thing.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by chrisweekly »

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…

Yeah, the smart playlists were awesome ("play unrated tracks I haven't heard in over a year, from albums I gave at least 3 stars") for those of us who went deep into curation. I miss it.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by tomComb »

forsalebypwner wrote: post #14
tomComb wrote: post #12

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It seems I need to leave this running for it to work? So it's not just a configuration changes.

When you first launch it, you'll notice a pop-up saying that this will automatically run when you login. There's no dock icon or menu bar icon. So no configuration changes needed.

I guess you mean it runs automatically at Mac user login, so that it is running all the time.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by carlosjobim »

imglorp wrote: post #11
bigyabai wrote: post #7

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why this is the default behavior for a supposedly premium operating system.

It seems the fans are willing to put up with absolutely unlimited grief and inconvenience to drink the koolaid they're given. Some Apple PM made a edict 11 years ago that Music shalt be thine only audio experience on the platform. Lock it down, boys! The rest of us ask for a customizable experience.

1. Pressing play button plays music

"Absolutely unlimited grief and inconvenience!"

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by bigyabai »

vasco wrote: post #153
Cider9986 wrote: post #124

I have a better one: curl https://alx.sh | sh https://asahilinux.org/fedora

This comment is almost at the quality of "install gentoo" but it lacks the panache and vintage that 4chan has.

This retort would hit a lot differently if macOS wasn't an advertisement-infested shithole of an OS in 2026.

I'm a classic macOS fan, but it's time for us to admit that it's not a premium OS anymore. It's a service upsell layer.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by bigyabai »

the_gastropod wrote: post #45
imglorp wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems the fans are willing to put up with absolutely unlimited grief and inconvenience to drink the koolaid they're given. Some Apple PM made a edict 11 years ago that Music shalt be thine only audio experience on the platform. Lock it down, boys! The rest of us ask for a customizable experience.

This “Apple customers are brainwashed cultists incapable of examining reality” schtick was tired a decade ago. No option’s perfect. But Apple’s current tradeoffs vs other options’ trade offs continue to feel worthwhile to many.

Maybe it's tired to you. The reason why it's a decade-old shtick is because Apple spent a decade adopting Microsoft-tier design patterns. They push advertisements in the OS and first-party apps, and then refuse to improve the experience with iterative updates. It is an ongoing issue.

> No option’s perfect.

Bullshit. I've used Linux and Windows PCs before, I have not heard a single user want Apple Music to open when they put on their headphones. There is a perfect solution, but you lack the willpower to call Apple out for dark patterns. This should only be an opt-in feature, full-stop.

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