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Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by nrabulinski »

dkga wrote: post #189

I signed up for Apple’s subscription which includes Apple Music. We are a Spotify family, but I then cancelled our premium subscription to avoid duplicate spending. I embraced Apple Music with an open heart in spite of the reservation from my family members. I liked that DJ feature that joined songs. But everything else felt subpar to Spotify. In particular, with AM I feel that they were always pushing US pop/rap mus…

Counter anecdote, Apple Music is constantly pushing new niche artists to me whenever I check the home page. I never use radio or discover features, but the personalized results are actually pretty good. I’ve been using Apple Music for close to a decade now

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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jonhohle wrote: post #197
embedding-shape wrote: post #58

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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…

Dating Fireball just posted about how broken SwiftUI is for basic things AppKit was doing correctly in the late 90s (undo/redo)[0]. I think peak productivity for desktops was probably hit about 10 years ago. Most things since then are worse, and the best things from macOS (drag and drop everything nearly anywhere, consistent keyboard shortcuts and interfaces, scriptability of everything, etc.) were never copied by ot…

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Post by nottorp »

drcongo wrote: post #62
nottorp wrote: post #15

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.

It's on F8 on my laptop... of course i only remember when i try to do something and end up with Apple Music.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by DerWOK »

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…

To respect my folder structure and still have nice covers and playlists... - and playing all the usual formats… I use JRiver Media Center (99$) and FlacBox (iOS and MacOS).

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by scrumper »

NobodyNada wrote: post #96

I needed something like this a few months ago. I use my MacBook to run my (musical) keyboard rig for live performances, and use low-latency wireless headphones for monitoring. The headphones have a transmitter dongle that plugs into my laptop, and the dongle sends a "play/pause" command if I press a button on my headphones...causing Music to launch and begin playing audio out of my default output device. It doesn't e…

That'd be a terrifying setup for me as a live player! I'm curious where you found low latency wireless headphones though.

Have a look at Loopback - very mature app now. I use this for doing live and studio routing, you set a live profile so that only your soft synths actually get an output and Music (and FaceTime, system, whatever) get sent to the musical equivalent of /dev/null. So an accidental press of "Play" has no effect (beyond perhaps catastrophic stuttering as Music.app opens.)

My laptop is disconnected at the moment so it's full of "missing device" notifications but this screenshot[1] will give you an idea. Profiles on the left, apps in the next column, routing to mixer channels (I have a multichannel interface) next and then "monitor devices" which can be multiplexed.

[1]https://imgur.com/gG1hG2c

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Post by embedding-shape »

coldtea wrote: post #195
ryandrake wrote: post #71

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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 search key opens the Spotlight panel, and the speech key opens Dictation...

The triangle key opens a calculator and the square opens a terminal.

What do you mean not everyone has the same keyboard???

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by bombcar »

ezfe wrote: post #246
bombcar wrote: post #159

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

I don't really understand what you mean - yes, it is designed for Apple Music, a tab for browsing for new music, etc. But it still has library views for songs, albums, artists, and playlists. That's the whole thing. Additional tabs to support modern music streaming don't devalue those tabs.

On the phone it always defaults to searching the online store/music, instead of the local songs.

The Mac app version is less annoying in that way as it seems to vaguely remember what you were looking at.

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Post by saagarjha »

xiaoyu2006 wrote: post #129
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…

Reminds me that when I was in high school, my father used to regulate my gaming sessions with Apple ScreenTime. I changed the BundleIdentifier in my game's info.plist to `com.apple.systempreferences` and sign the .app with my own developer cert to bypass this. Was a lot of fun before got caught physically.

Did Apple attribute it solely based on bundle ID?

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by saagarjha »

embedding-shape wrote: post #257
coldtea wrote: post #195

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The search key opens the Spotlight panel, and the speech key opens Dictation...

The triangle key opens a calculator and the square opens a terminal. What do you mean not everyone has the same keyboard???

Macs generally come with the same keyboard, though.
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