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What’s the technical reason for the launch? Lots of people report Music launching when they connect a headset, but it doesn’t happen to me with my Mac and heads
by jrmg 2y ago
What’s the technical reason for the launch? Lots of people report Music launching when they connect a headset, but it doesn’t happen to me with my Mac and headset. Do some headsets (like many cars…) issue a ‘play’ command to the device after connection?
Not trying to argue that Apple shouldn’t provide a way to stop this - just curious about why it happens at all.
- mateus1 2y agoFrom my personal experience, macOS will default to Apple Music even when there is a Spotify song on pause or a YouTube video open. They’re using “default to” as an effective nudge mechanism towards their moat.
- garciasn 2y agoMy phone immediately starts playing some song in Apple Music that I haven't listened to in literal years every time it connects to my car's BT. I went through and did whatever it is that's supposed to stop this...but, it doesn't work. So, I sit there listening to 4 seconds of Beck while cursing each and every day.
- jrmg 2y agoFWIW, it’s the car that’s issuing the play command. I don’t understand why cars do this. Doesn’t make it less annoying than it being the phone’s ‘fault’ of course. I did manage to stop this by making a shortcut that pauses media after a Bluetooth or CarPlay connection to my car. Sometimes get a second or two of whatever’s playing, but other than that it works.
- kps 2y agoApparently people work around this with an AAAAAAlbum containing 8 hours of silence.
- EasyMark 2y agomight be scary if you're driving at night on a dark windy road and volume is high when the 8 hours is up....
- jwells89 2y agoI do think it’s something specific to some models of Bluetooth headphones. AirPods don’t do it, and while it’s been a while since I’ve used my Sony XM4’s with a Mac I don’t recall them doing it either.
- vundercind 2y agoAll I can figure is some send a “play” command automatically when they connect, and some don’t.
- corney91 2y agoYeah, I think some headsets issue Play when connecting. I had a frustrating moment yesterday on a Macbook: - I was connected to a video call with Bluetooth headphones. - It turns out the headphones were also connected to my phone at the same time, because it started ringing via the headphones and I couldn't hear anything on the video call. - I rejected the call. - The headphones attempted to resume what I was doing by sending the Play command to the Macbook. - iTunes then opened covering up my video call window. - I tried to close with CMD+W, iTunes didn't let me because I wasn't logged in and apparently the login window isn't allowed to be closed by itself. - I manage to close the iTunes window and try to remember what I was saying on the call. This was all due to terrible decisions by both Apple and Sennheiser imo.