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Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by socalgal2 » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

olyjohn wrote: post #236

socalgal2 wrote: post #230

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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.

I manage my 9000+ MP3s with the filesystem. It has all the cover art, it's organized any way I want, and has playlists based on any criteria I want. Then I use any music player I want, and can drop the files onto any device I want.

What filesystem manages in multiple ways? Or are you using symlinks so you have one collection by artist, another by album, another by genre, another by year, etc...

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by Geste » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:17 PM UTC

I liked it but realised I couldn't watch anything on VLC while this ran. Too bad.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by xiaoyu2006 » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 6:41 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #259

xiaoyu2006 wrote: post #129

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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?

Yes

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by carte_blanche » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 8:41 AM UTC

I've been using noTunes to do this for years, works like a charm: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

Also a bit unfortunate that a software like this has to exist in the first place.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by spectre3d » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 12:28 PM UTC

kibae wrote: post #162

ronnier wrote: post #144

Would also love to stop the dictionary app from opening

Also the ability to uninstall bloatware like Chess. When I switched my browser away from Chrome I kept typing "c, h, return" in spotlight out of habit and kept opening Chess.

Like Quicksilver, Alfred, Launchbar, Butler, Raycast, and many other launchers, you can train Spotlight to always launch the same thing depending on what abbreviation you type.

The next time you go to launch Chrome, type ch and then use the arrow keys to navigate to the Chrome result to launch it.

You may have to do that for one more launch. After that it should always launch Chrome with ‘ch’.

Re: Stop the Apple Music app from launching

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Post by spectre3d » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 3:22 PM UTC

spectre3d wrote: post #285

kibae wrote: post #162

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Also the ability to uninstall bloatware like Chess. When I switched my browser away from Chrome I kept typing "c, h, return" in spotlight out of habit and kept opening Chess.

Like Quicksilver, Alfred, Launchbar, Butler, Raycast, and many other launchers, you can train Spotlight to always launch the same thing depending on what abbreviation you type. The next time you go to launch Chrome, type ch and then use the arrow keys to navigate to the Chrome result to launch it. You may have to do that for one more launch. After that it should always launch Chrome with ‘ch’.

The abbreviation doesn’t have to be the first few letters verbatim either. For example, I use ‘du’ to launch Disk Utility and ‘ff’ for Firefox.