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Finally! This is so annoying for Spotify users. Every time the system starts up, and Spotify is configured to start at startup, but you haven't interacted with
by 9dev 2y ago
Finally! This is so annoying for Spotify users. Every time the system starts up, and Spotify is configured to start at startup, but you haven't interacted with the window yet, then press the physical play button on the keyboard—instead of starting playback as you'd expect, the system starts Apple Music. It drives me mad.
- sneak 2y agoThe launch of Apple music also sends your system serial number to Apple, so technically Macs all have a single hotkey to share their hardware identifier and IP with the mothership.
- mvkel 2y agoTechnically Apple sent their serial number to you. Either way you can prevent this by selecting "Don't Send" when you first set up your Mac
- sneak 2y agoThis is false. No matter what you do configuration-wise, macOS sends hardware identifiers to Apple, on each OS update (the ECID and others to the TSS server gs.apple.com), as well as when it registers for APNS. The obtained hardware-identifier-linked certs are then used continuously to access APNS. There is no avoiding it in the first instance (the OS update process), as it is required for updates if you have boot security enabled, and there is no UI to disable APNS.
- jeffhuys 2y agoYou were talking about the hotkey.
- freedomben 2y agoGood call. I agree generally with GP, but they definitely did shift the goal posts :-)
- nicce 2y agoAnd it is actually very useful, at least if you buy AppleCare+ Global repair with capped low price just by giving your computer and no questions asked. I just personally saved about 3000 dollars.
- cjk2 2y agoExactly this. Concierge needs to know who the hell you are.
- boxed 2y agoiPhones are even worse. You play a sound in any app, like a short clip in instagram or Safari, and then press play again you get Apple Music. This has been broken since the very first iPhone. They just need to add a stack of 2 entries to fix this for 99% of usages.
- herpdyderp 2y agoat least on iOS you can permanently delete the music app (permanently meaning system updates won't restore it)
- rjzzleep 2y agoWait, you can do that? Will that fix the play pause issue ? Thank you, this is wonderful. I never thought it was an Music app issue. I always it's just iOS pip being broken.
- nolongerthere 2y agoI had never experienced what the gp was experiencing and I can only guess it’s because I’ve had apple music uninstalled ever since they allowed that.
- freedomben 2y ago> ever since they allowed that do you remember about when that was?
- nolongerthere 2y agoI want to say 5 years ago, my car is a 2018 and I know the U2 autoplay thing was an issue when I bought it, but I feel like within a year a new OS came out that allowed deleting default apps and that solved the U2 issue. And I guess saved me from experiencing the gp’s issue.
- boxed 2y ago
- troupo 2y agoBeardedSpice is the saviour.
- rcleveng 2y agoAlso annoying if you use AirPods for Google Meet and Zoom. Half of the time when I put in my AirPods, here comes Apple Music, stealing focus from what I was trying to do.
- mikepurvis 2y agoI get this all the time with bluetooth audio and even Carplay— connect the phone to some external audio sink and boom, I'm listening to whatever is at the top of my music library sorted alphabetically (The Absentee, by Crooked Still). I'm relived to hear that this isn't a problem which goes away if I buy Airpods.
- mastax 2y agoI never used to have this problem until recently, when it started happening every time I’d start my car - and even every time I’d stop playing other media in my car. I ended up uninstalling Apple Music. At least they let you do that.
- tivert 2y ago> Finally! This is so annoying for Spotify users. Every time the system starts up, and Spotify is configured to start at startup, but you haven't interacted with the window yet, then press the physical play button on the keyboard—instead of starting playback as you'd expect, the system starts Apple Music. It drives me mad. But you're in Apple's ecosystem, you're supposed to use Apple products, happily. The obvious fix for that "bug" is to start using Apple Music.
- freetanga 2y agoAnd buy more hardware, just to be safe…
- pachouli-please 2y agoclosing issue as [fixed in m4]
- BelleOfTheBall 2y agoAt least Windows had the decency to make their ridiculous straight-to-LinkedIn keyboard shortcut obscure. Applications auto-launching should not be a thing unless the user set them up to do so or they’re essential to the system’s functioning.
- 7thpower 2y agoMind blown.
- jkaptur 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
- talldayo 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
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- cheshire137 2y agoI modified my touch bar to no longer show the play/pause button because every time I forgot and hit it, I got punished by Apple Music opening and getting stuck in a loop of me force-quitting it and it restarting.
- wincent 2y agoMe too. Sad to say just how huge the quality of life improvement from this small tweak.
- Tyr42 2y agoI never agreed to the EULA, which at least makes it easy to stop.
- RunSet 2y agoSomewhat related: Any veteran Mac user know any way to disable this thing? https://i.postimg.cc/P5XJ1wwJ/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/P5XJ1wwJ/image.png
- sbuk 2y agoSystem Settings > Control Centre > Now Playing > Show When Active or Don’t Show in Menu Bar
- RunSet 2y agoIf only it were so easy. What is shown in the screen shot above is the result of exercising the option you describe. Unfortunately that option only disables the display of the currently playing track title, not the entire section labelled "Music".
- arrowsmith 2y agoI feel weird reading this thread because I use a Mac all day, every day, and I have never noticed this problem. I honestly had no idea that this was a big frustration for people, and when I saw this thread I thought "why would I need to prevent Apple Music from opening?" I can't remember ever being annoyed by the "play" button opening Apple Music - the worst it might do is start playing the YouTube video in an open browser tab when I wanted it to play Spotify (it depends on which app i most recently alt-tabbed from), but that's only a minor annoyance. Am I the weird one? My system rarely starts up because I rarely turn it off; why bother? (`uptime` reports that the last time I restarted the computer was 79 days ago.) And I pretty much always have Spotify or YouTube (the two main places I open in the background, so Macos doesn't need to open a new app to start playing. What am I doing right?
- rigrassm 2y agoFor me, it's an issue because my headphones have touch input on the outside of the right side ear and often when I'm putting them on I'll accidentally rich it in a way that registers as a tap which sends the play command.