For everything that Apple does great. They really do drop the ball on the dumbest things. I used to use iTunes in place of the Apple Music app for my library and connecting my old iPods, and now with Retroactive being discontinued I haven't found a great alternative other than just buying an old Mac and I unfortunately don't have the space for one.
Stop the Apple Music app from launching
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Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
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I had an OO perl replacement for iTunes back in the day (to learn OO perl, mostly). It had a web frontend, and also handled ripping and cd metadata with “insert disk, up arrow enter”. It failed to eject the disk iff there was a problem with the rip / transcode / metadata. I had 3-4 CDROMs in a desktop for parallelism. Maybe I should have an LLM port to rust. It was under a thousand lines of code.
`bless` your heart
Yeah but then no rust comment...
Easy as [mpg]123
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#203I 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…
vibe code your own, implement some kind of yt-downloader? torrent downloader,etc, maybe some album art. hm might make one myself.
Yt-dlp doesn't do metadata though, at least the way I hold it. So I end up with "unknown - Unknown - file title" or the like when they're playing.
Stuff designed to rip mp3 streams got this right.
I'm probably holding it wrong.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
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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 d…
I've been vibe coding some music tools and after some researching let Claude get going with imgui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) to build a tool I use for local authoring. It's pretty pixel-dense and looks alright to me. It runs on MacOS and Linux, which is enough for my needs now. Claude has been pretty decent at getting audio stuff going on MacOS and can even tap into various accelerators in MacOS libraries. It's had no problems loading and playing mp3s and m4as, which is the majority of my collection. I'll probably prototype an music manager off of that. It'd be great if it works out for Android as well.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
#205I 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.
The difference being that install Gentoo would be 15 pages of instructions, not just pipe this into sh.
If I were on my computer, it'd actually link the Gentoo script that we used to bootstrap it on AWS.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
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vibe code your own, implement some kind of yt-downloader? torrent downloader,etc, maybe some album art. hm might make one myself.
Yt-dlp doesn't do metadata though, at least the way I hold it. So I end up with "unknown - Unknown - file title" or the like when they're playing. Stuff designed to rip mp3 streams got this right. I'm probably holding it wrong.
Yeah, used to rip online radios with a winamp plugin. it placed the songs in folders per day and got each song name right.
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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.
Yeah but does your Mac have a key combo to launch LinkedIn? Windows +1, Mac 0
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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.
VLC on iPhone has served me more reliably than Apple Music.
Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching
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If there’s no media session available, “play” isn’t an action that makes any sense, so it shouldn’t do anything IMO.
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…
I think playing something when I hit the play button makes a lot of sense. (The headphones auto-play is a bit less obvious than the keyboard key, I would probably want that to do nothing in this case.)
The issue IMHO is that this is not configurable. Apple Music may even be a reasonable default (being the built-in music player). But it should provide options for Apple Music, whatever other apps I have installed, or nothing.
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vibe code your own, implement some kind of yt-downloader? torrent downloader,etc, maybe some album art. hm might make one myself.
Yt-dlp doesn't do metadata though, at least the way I hold it. So I end up with "unknown - Unknown - file title" or the like when they're playing. Stuff designed to rip mp3 streams got this right. I'm probably holding it wrong.
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