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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?
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Why vibe code anything? VLC would fit the bill. Even quicktime.
I think you must have very different needs if VLC is a substitute for iTunes/Music. For me, iTunes/Music is a music catalog app for managing my 9000+ MP3s with artists, album covers, playlisted based on various criteria, etc... where as VLC is an app for playing back single media files.
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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.
> 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…
If their tendancy is to research a problem and understand why it's happening and design a solution, then their LLM assisted code will do that as well.
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…
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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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