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Stop the Apple Music app from launching
- ericskiff 4mo agoThank you, this is a huge pet peeve of mine. I mis-click my airpod and suddenly this app I've never used and don't want launches
- ASalazarMX 4mo ago> this app I've never used and don't want launches I'm by no way an Apple fan, but why not uninstall the app if you don't need it?
- jacobsenscott 4mo agoIt cannot be uninstalled
- callc 4mo agocough cough hey EU you hearing this shit?
- joxdosba 4mo agoIf you for whatever reason do not want the security benefits offered by SIP, you can turn it off. Of course, doing so just to get rid of Apple Music would tend to be a bit crazy.
- nehal3m 4mo agoI'd say having to turn off System Integrity Protection as a prerequisite to uninstalling a music player is crazy. Spoken as someone who likes MacOS and Apple Music.
- lynndotpy 4mo agoThe Apple Music thing bothers me and adds friction to my life every single day that I use MacOS. We're on a tech forum where everyone here is aware (or at least can understand) how SIP is useful for the security model on MacOS. But for plenty of people with this problem, SIP is only the thing you learn can disable so you can immediately make your life a little better. The crazy ones are Apple here, since this problem should not require disabling SIP to fix.
- dlev_pika 4mo agoThe (shitty) logic here is that you don’t ‘own’ the OS, but merely rent it, so “deal with it”
- parl_match 4mo agoYou can disable the control that prevents deleting the app (SIP).
- saagarjha 4mo agoSIP is only one part of this, you also would need to disable SSV.
- mritun 4mo ago^ How can you make such an obviously wrong statement? Drag Music app to Trash, and that it! Like you do with any other app.
- FloayYerBoat 4mo agoI hope this is a joke. You cannot delete it. It's considered "system" software.
- Savageman 4mo agoAs a non power of Mac (only recently switched), I'll definitely try this. My repeated attempts to remove from Dock and hide it all failed: half the time I remove my ear buds the Apple Music pops up in the middle of my screen and auto-enables itself in the Dock...
- al_borland 4mo agoThe Dock just contains a bunch of shortcuts. The app itself lives in the /Applications folder along with the rest of them that you can choose to add to your dock (by just dragging them down there and letting a spot open up for it).
- parl_match 4mo ago^ How can you make such an obviously wrong statement Go ahead and try. It's not like "any other app".
- lynndotpy 4mo agoYou can not do this on MacOS, at least on MacOS 26 on Apple Silicon without SIP disabled. I was: - Unable to drag from the Applications drawer to Trash - Unable to drag from the Spotlight search to Trash - Unable to drag from Finder (in ~/Applications) to Trash - Unable to delete (in Finder) - Unable to delete (through rm in terminal). This has been a bother for years across MacOS versions and I've tried variations of these, personally. In the future, you might consider not denigrating others in this way. It is hard to save face when you are wrong. And it is hard for others to provide an avenue for you to save face while also pointing out that your statements are not true.
- rossng 4mo agoI only recently discovered that not only can you not uninstall Apple's bloatware - you can't even hide it in a folder! I just can't understand why I have to have my list of useful apps interspersed with cruft like Books.app or Journal.app.
- wood_spirit 4mo agoSame! And there is no obvious close button etc on the overtop blocking modal dialog either. It’s a dark pattern.
- verdverm 4mo agoI've been using this for a while now: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes Source code for this one: https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/MusicDecoy https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/MusicDecoy
- dangerlibrary 4mo agonoTunes is one of the first things I install on a new mac.
- fartfeatures 4mo agoI'm very clumsy and I've never hit the play button by accident. What are you guys doing that makes it so easy to accidentally click the play button? Are you using the mac with the touch bar or something?
- creedleshrump 4mo agoFor me it mostly happens when I press play on my airpods. If they connect to my mac instead of my phone it opens up apple music if I don't have another media player open.
- forsalebypwner 4mo agoFor me, this constantly happens: - I'll pause a podcast I'm listening to on my iPhone or iPad, or just take my AirPods out of my ear for a moment - Like 5 minutes later, I'll squeeze the AirPod stem to resume playback. It will instead think that I want to play Apple Music on my Mac for some fucking reason. I don't think this behavior can be easily customized (somebody let me know if it can!)
- hombre_fatal 4mo agoJust this week I was stuck in this state where my AirPods were receiving audio from the iPhone in my pocket (intended), but play/pause commands from the AirPods were sent to my Macbook in the other room.
- valentiniljaz 4mo agoYes. Yes. Thank you. I wanted something like for years.
- bigyabai 4mo agoFor the life of me, I cannot figure out why this is the default behavior for a supposedly premium operating system.
- eviks 4mo agoThe OS isn't supposed to be premium since it's free, does that help figure it out?
- imglorp 4mo agoIt seems the fans are willing to put up with absolutely unlimited grief and inconvenience to drink the koolaid they're given. Some Apple PM made a edict 11 years ago that Music shalt be thine only audio experience on the platform. Lock it down, boys! The rest of us ask for a customizable experience.
- the_gastropod 4mo agoThis “Apple customers are brainwashed cultists incapable of examining reality” schtick was tired a decade ago. No option’s perfect. But Apple’s current tradeoffs vs other options’ trade offs continue to feel worthwhile to many.
- bigyabai 4mo agoMaybe it's tired to you. The reason why it's a decade-old shtick is because Apple spent a decade adopting Microsoft-tier design patterns. They push advertisements in the OS and first-party apps, and then refuse to improve the experience with iterative updates. It is an ongoing issue. > No option’s perfect. Bullshit. I've used Linux and Windows PCs before, I have not heard a single user want Apple Music to open when they put on their headphones. There is a perfect solution, but you lack the willpower to call Apple out for dark patterns. This should only be an opt-in feature, full-stop.
- hmokiguess 4mo agofor me it's when I open an audio file and it automatically launches it AND adds it to my music library, the adding to library is what I hate, then I have to delete it and specifically choose "Keep file"
- dlev_pika 4mo agoYeah, this sucks
- kccqzy 4mo agoAh a long time ago when the Music app was still called iTunes I have configured all music files to be opened with quicktime player. It’s been so long that I forgot the default was the Music app. To me it’s absolutely clear that playing a file doesn’t mean I want it in my library.
- fnordlord 4mo agoThis was annoying to me too but it is pretty easy to fix. Just right click on the .mp3 or whatever file, Get Info and change the default application to your preferred app and then click on "Change all..." You have to do it once per file type but it's once and done.
- xoa 4mo agoYes, at least in theory changing this is straight forward. Though: >You have to do it once per file type but it's once and done. I will note I have one Mac with one old user account where it will not remember this anymore across reboots (across macOS 15, plan to skip 26 and hope 27 is acceptable). I haven't had time to try to get into why, but it's occasionally irritating.
- isametry 4mo agoI wonder if SwiftDefaultApps might yield different results compared to the Cmd+I menu? It's a crude-yet-still-working preference pane for setting default apps in System Settings, rather than using example files: https://github.com/Lord-Kamina/SwiftDefaultApps https://github.com/Lord-Kamina/SwiftDefaultApps
- nottorp 4mo agoLovely. I don't press the play button by mistake much, but if i touch my BT headphones wrong...
- drcongo 4mo agoI actually had to look at my keyboard as I'd forgotten there even was a play button.
- cestith 4mo agoMy mac opens Music for func + enter. Sometimes I accidentally have the function button held down as I hit enter. Then whatever app I’m trying to use to type loses its focus to this app I never use.
- picofarad 4mo agoYeah but does your Mac have a key combo to launch LinkedIn? Windows +1, Mac 0
- nottorp 4mo agoIt's on F8 on my laptop... of course i only remember when i try to do something and end up with Apple Music.
- lxgr 4mo agoReading this title made “The Miracle of Joey Ramone” by U2 play in my head.
- dlev_pika 4mo agoOh man, throwback to when they forced the U2 albums on to everyone’s device for ReasonsTM
- cryptoz 4mo agoIt's not even a throwback. That U2 album still shows up if I accidentally open Apple Music. I haaaaate it. I disliked U2 before any of this, but now I have absolutely sworn to never ever listen to any of their music. Google did the same thing with Transformers 2 I think. It still shows up as Purchased for me even though I absolutely did not purchase that. Good way to ensure I never ever watch any Transformers movie!
- al_borland 4mo agoThere was a website to remove it completely from your library, it launched in 2014 and was up for many years, but is now gone. These days you can delete the album from your library and set the Music app to not automatically download your purchases. If you want to go an extra mile, you can login to your iTunes account to view your purchases and hide it there too.
- kps 4mo agoJoey Ramone never wrote a song about U2. +1 point for Joey Ramone.
- sph 4mo agoThe lack of applications like this is why macOS will always be a superior alternative to Linux. /s for the sarcasm impaired
- innagadadavida 4mo agoThe same thing happens with iPhone and car bluetooth. It is super annyoing and many times, a podcast will be playing in the background while the car has FM/radio selected. This is incredibly frustrating and bad user experience. The worst part is it is not clear if this is Apple's fault or some buggy old firmware in the car's audio stack that is at fault (this happens consistently on 2017 Tesla Model S).
- tzs 4mo agoI too have seen conflicts between CarPlay and the radio. My car's a Hyundai. I mostly listen to the radio, with an occasional trip where I instead listen to a podcast or music via CarPlay. What I've found greatly helps is when I finish a trip where I've used CarPlay after I park but before turning the car off I open my phone, open control center, tap the now playing widget, tap the symbol on that for output selection, and make sure it is set to iPhone Speaker. I then hit the Media button in the car and select FM. That starts the radio playing. Then I stop the radio and shut off the car. Next time I use the car CarPlay connects normally but does NOT take over the media playback. If I hit the play button in the car it starts playing the radio. This works fine for me because as I said I mostly listen to radio. It is not that big of a deal the once a week or so that I listen via CarPlay to do those extra steps at the end of a trip. It would probably be a lot more annoying if I was frequently switching between radio and CarPlay. In either case I would definitely like a setting somewhere that makes it so the play button in the car plays whatever source was playing the last time you turned off playback.
- nepthar 4mo agoThank you. Thank you.
- skarz 4mo agoEvery time I get in my car the Apple Music app prompts me to resubscribe with a full screen popup. Usually it tries 2-3 times before it stops.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoI use both Apple Music and Spotify, and normally use the former in the car because it resumes its state from the last shutdown while Spotify does not. But when I do use Spotify, Apple Music is the app that comes up the next time I start the car. Pretty annoying.
- watersb 4mo agoFrom TFA, via StackExchange: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist will quit the process responsible for the madness (rcd, the "remote control daemon"). You'll have to remember to re-load this thing if you want the default behavior. Or if you encounter other unexpected situations, to restore the default insanity. It might be easier to run this app instead; then you have an icon in your GUI desktop environment and an app you can simply quit to restore defaults. Plus this app allows you to assign any app to the "Play" media event.
- linsomniac 4mo agoWow, thank you! I use and "like" youtube music, but it seems like every time I'd start a google meet call (IIRC) or otherwise interact with audio on my MacBook it would bring up Apple Music. If I quit it, it would pop back up the next time I had audio playing, but if I just left it running it would be fine. So I'd always have this Apple Music in my list of running apps. Kind of annoying. I ran the above and then quit Apple Music and tried a few different things and so far it hasn't come back up.
- Terretta 4mo ago> you have an icon ... simply quit FTA: Uh.. how do I quit this app? The app has no Dock icon and no menubar icon so to quit it you'd need to do one of the following: Launch Activity Monitor, find Music Decoy and press the button at the top Run the following command in the Terminal: killall 'Music Decoy'
- riazrizvi 4mo agoIt's very sad to see Apple using these lowbrow Microsoft tactics. Press ganging your users into launching your other shit product is brand cannibalism.
- letrix 4mo agoBut why wouldn't pressing the Play button, when no media session is available, not open the music player?
- spankalee 4mo agoI don't use Apple Music, so opening their music player only wastes my attention and time. It happens if you accidentally press play on your headphones too. Then you need to quit Apple Music, for no good reason. And you can't uninstall it!
- Terr_ 4mo agoA similar scourge is encroaching on Google-branded android phones, as they add mandatory apps to cover stuff like supporting earbuds you don't own.
- SauntSolaire 4mo agoAre you talking about the pixel buds app? They ask you on setup if you want it installed, and you can uninstall it anytime. Seems pretty far from "mandatory".
- Terr_ 4mo agoYes, that's the example I had in mind. > you can uninstall it anytime I'm sure it tells you that... but did you actually try? The "uninstall" button is a lie: You cannot remove the app, you can only roll it back to some mandatory minimum version. > Do you want to uninstall all updates to this Android System app? If you "uninstall", the app still exists, and your only choice is to surrender and update it again. So yes, that "system app" is (as far as Google is concerned) absolutely "mandatory" on my phone.
- r0fl 4mo agoI deleted mine because of this problem I have the podcast app and so many times I would click an AirPod to resume and it would play a random song
- stmw 4mo agoThis is great! We need something similar for knowledgeconstructiond and several other overly insistent Apple software components.
- tobadzistsini 4mo agoOr just switch to an Android phone.
- hollowonepl 4mo agoOnly with GraphenOS
- scraft 4mo agoThis software doesn't work on an Android phone.
- cestith 4mo agoI have an Android phone. It’s really not a replacement for a Macbook Pro though.
- dlev_pika 4mo agoI wish there was a way to stop it from ever appearing as spotlight result - when I type ‘music’, the first result (always) should be the music app I use, not their stuff
- Terr_ 4mo agoRecently I've been using a mac more, and--even with the low bar of Windows default search--I've been very disappointed with Spotlight. For example, it keeps polluting my results with things like preinstalled system music demo files. There's no option to exclude the location, nor to selectively disable "Garageband" results while keeping other apps I actually do use for work.
- dlev_pika 4mo agoYeah, I hear you - and sometimes, when you get it to do what you want, some system update will force a reindex and you are back to square one. On the bright side, there are a few power scripts that allow a much more custom experience (particularly if you are an all keyboard shortcuts person), but I am not the kind that wants extras there.
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- hollowonepl 4mo agoThis is nice, I recently vibe coded my own media player as I mostly listen to my own digitalized audio library and all software available today sucks to cover my scenario or consumes way too much resources by my taste… but random triggering Apple Music happens so often and it’s so annoying. Good article explaining how the trick works, should be easy to self-implement without installing another 3rd party software from nowhere known source
- alin23 4mo agoDev here, thanks! Although it's a pretty well known source in the macOS apps community (lowtechguys.com) with source code available right on the front page (https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/MusicDecoy https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/MusicDecoy) and the code does basically nothing. There's not much to be afraid of.
- bound008 4mo agoPSA: Its Unix. sudo chmod -x /Applications/Music.app edit: sorry about that. this used to work before the Music.app moved to /System/Applications
- paulgb 4mo agoI wish it were that simple. ~: sudo chmod -x /Applications/Music.app chmod: /Applications/Music.app: No such file or directory ~: sudo chmod -x /System/Applications/Music.app chmod: Unable to change file mode on /System/Applications/Music.app: Operation not permitted (Mac OS Tahoe 26.5)
- cestith 4mo ago% ls -la /System/Applications/Music.app/Contents/MacOS/Music -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 66201040 Apr 30 09:12 /System/Applications/Music.app/Contents/MacOS/Music
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- scraft 4mo agoPSA: don't run random commands people on the internet tell you to run, it turns out those people haven't even run those commands themselves..
- JBiserkov 4mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection
- titzer 4mo agoI 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 used AIMP for a while, but nowadays I think I'll just vibe code my own with my own interface and rely on the local file system and folder mounts to do the job. I really love this new era where I can just use AI to build a custom thing for myself and forget about all the predatory crap out there, especially from the OS vendors. I don't need streaming, I don't want it. I would have kept buying albums off iTunes, but since it sucks so much I'll just buy it on CD, thanks.
- asdff 4mo agoWhy vibe code anything? VLC would fit the bill. Even quicktime.
- titzer 4mo agoIt's mostly that I want my own list management, key combinations, navigation, etc. Once the entire UI is my oyster, I realized I don't have to settle for how someone else decided to lay out the menus, etc. 25 years ago I would just learn all the key combos and be set, but 12 major iterations later, few to zero of those UI skills and muscle memory state has survived. So now, I can do my own and no one can take it away from me :)
- hedora 4mo agoI strongly recommend going this route (speaking from experience). It is shockingly easy to build an opinionated UI for these things in a web browser. You need to implement m3u generation (or use a js web player), and some sort of hierarchical hyperlink based nav that matches your muscle memory. You should be able to use an existing service to grab cover art and metadata for newly ripped disks (unless those services disappeared over the years). If you want to use a native GUI/TUI toolkit, I’d be shocked if an LLM had any trouble laying it out after a few rounds of refinement. (It definitely will not have any trouble doing this for web stuff.)
- ios-contractor 4mo agoI have Galaxy Buds Pro and I'm using this awesome client https://github.com/timschneeb/GalaxyBudsClient https://github.com/timschneeb/GalaxyBudsClient to disable all touches but sometimes the client isn't running in the background and the Music app just gets in my way, so this is great!
- jxmorris12 4mo ago> 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 bundle identifiers work, etc. And the outcome is an app with almost no code at all – just a collision – it's beautiful. (As an aside, coding agents are terrible at this kind of thing; I'd guess Codex as of right now would write some overpowered application that polls in a loop looking for Music App starts and killing them)
- lucideer 4mo agoOn 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 launching", it would likely try to do what most humans would do. Otoh if you asked an agent to explain why the Apple Music app launches, based on the discoveries it presents to you from its investigation you would quickly discover for yourself that asking it to make a zero code app that collides with Music is the best course of action.
- enos_feedler 4mo agoThis is true. Outcomes correlate with the quality and depth of the conversation. The quality and depth correlates with the users understanding of computers
- mikepurvis 4mo agoAbsolutely. Coding agents as a research companion to the curious are phenomenal, but they also amplify all the worst tendencies of "when all you have is a hammer".
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- boutell 4mo agoI THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE! I actually nuked my music library off my Mac to mitigate this problem, but it's still a nuisance when the app launches. Thank you for sharing this!
- rbbydotdev 4mo agolaunching apple music on play, seems very similar to microsoft's early anti trust case and internet explorer
- NobodyNada 4mo agoI 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 even care whether my headphone transmitter is selected as the default output device; in a complex multi-device setup, I can press a button on my headphones and it will happily play audio out of some other device. This is problematic because if I were to accidentally hit the button in the middle of a set, and it decides to default to whatever interface is connected to the P.A. system, then now I've just started blasting some random song at full volume to everyone in the venue. (It's not an immediate problem for me anymore because I've reworked my hardware setup such that the dongle connects through my audio interface rather than directly to my laptop, meaning my laptop no longer receives "play/pause" commands from it. There were additional reasons for this rework, but preventing this misbehavior was absolutely part of the consideration.) It's absurd that a premium device marketed to creative professionals has unconfigurable behavior like this which is so unacceptable for a live show.
- scrumper 4mo agoThat'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 https://imgur.com/gG1hG2c
- NobodyNada 4mo agoThe headphones are from AIAIAI: https://aiaiai.audio/headphones/tma-2-studio-wireless https://aiaiai.audio/headphones/tma-2-studio-wireless Loopback looks nice, but I prefer to keep the routing entirely within my DAW (or my interface where possible) to keep latency to a minimum, particularly since I'm already using wireless headphones that add 10ms latency. Another mitigation I now have is to use an aggregate device that has BlackHole on the first two channels rather than the main outputs. That way, if I accidentally start playing audio, it gets harmlessly sent to the void; and it also means I can easily capture and forward it in my DAW if I actually want to play PC audio (for example, listening to a recording during a rehearsal).
- mococa 4mo agoI use https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes
- ghrl 4mo agoYeah, I used that too on my last Mac. But the page explicitly states the benefits of this approach (preventing it from launching all together without doing anything vs listening for the launch and killing it). It also does not use a menu bar icon, which is also good considering the limited space.
- brynnbee 4mo agoInstalled, thanks!
- blinded 4mo agoI still use itunes for music that I've purchased. But all the features now push you towards streaming and its exhausting.
- throfktjj 4mo agoJust uninstall it! Mac is simple if you know how to use it!
- saagarjha 4mo agoClearly you do not.
- jorisw 4mo agoI had been using the app noTunes for this.
- Cider9986 4mo agoI have a better one: curl https://alx.sh | sh https://asahilinux.org/fedora https://asahilinux.org/fedora
- vasco 4mo agoThis comment is almost at the quality of "install gentoo" but it lacks the panache and vintage that 4chan has.
- bigyabai 4mo agoThis retort would hit a lot differently if macOS wasn't an advertisement-infested shithole of an OS in 2026. I'm a classic macOS fan, but it's time for us to admit that it's not a premium OS anymore. It's a service upsell layer.
- picofarad 4mo agoThe 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.
- genewitch 4mo agohttp://projectftm.com/#UrG-0V2gGFxdB6JRAZ1dHg http://projectftm.com/#UrG-0V2gGFxdB6JRAZ1dHg there we go
- 2dvisio 4mo agoSharing as I’ve not seen this mentioned by anyone. I have achieved something similar with Karabiner and the custom reassignment of the play button to actually run Spotify and play the last song from there rather than Apple Music and it worked like a charm.
- emaro 4mo agoI tried to stop this a while ago and searching the internet did not yield great results, so I ended up creating a Shortcut that runs when the Music app opens to close it again. This actually worked well until that time I wanted to use the Music app for real. So annoying and not great UX from Apple imo. Thanks for this.
- gausswho 4mo agoAfter I discovered my Mac Mini was downloading animated wallpapers until filling up 80Gb of space, then doing it all over again every time I reboot, I decided I'd had enough and installed LuLu firewall and blocked every outbound to apple.com. I don't use any of their services anyway, and some of them approach malware suspicion (keyboard input analytics daemon??)
- partloyaldemon 4mo agoOk. Now help me get spotlight to index my mirror-style Google Drive. Seems only this level of genius could accomplish it.
- ronnier 4mo agoWould also love to stop the dictionary app from opening
- kibae 4mo agoAlso 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.
- spectre3d 4mo agoLike 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’.
- spectre3d 4mo agoThe 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.
- Terretta 4mo agoOn the plus side in MacOS 27, once it is playing, dragging the playhead makes it grumpy and to fix it you get to quit or go full screen: - Media Playback Known Issues: In apps like TV, Podcasts, and Music, the window controls may become unresponsive after dragging the playhead to adjust the playback position. (177984877) - Workaround: Use keyboard shortcuts or the menu bar to close, minimize, or enter full screen mode. • • • Super clunky compared to the imminently more practical workaround for wrong-size gifs in Messages, STOP LOOKING AT IT: - Messages Known Issues: GIFs and pasted images might render as the incorrect size. (177657977) - Workaround: Scroll until that message is offscreen
- microflash 4mo agoSince I don't care about Apple Music at all, I just lock the ~Music/Music folder. It prevents the app to launch while still keeping the key functional in other apps.
- 7777777phil 4mo agoThank You!
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- P-Nuts 4mo agobrew install notunes Another fix for this bollocks
- flawn 4mo agohttps://github.com/tombonez/noTunes https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes this is the OG app.
- abhinavsns 4mo agoThere is another app called notunes that I have been using for ages.
- dkga 4mo agoI 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 music to me, even as I was listening everything from old Tunisian singers to Denmark’s Magtens Korridorer. But overall it just felt that Spotify folks really liked music as an Art form, whereas AM really wanted you to listen to whatever they were featuring/pedalling. Like that song lyrics translation feature introduced by Spotify - only if you enjoy songs in languages you might not yet understand you would think of such a nice feature!
- nrabulinski 4mo agoCounter 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
- brikym 4mo agoI'be been using a tool called NoTunes for years. https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes Fuck that app and fuck your subscription Apple.
- RgrTheShrubbr 4mo agoFor everything that Apple does great. They really do drop the ball on the dumbest things. I used to use iTunes in place of the Apple Music app for my library and connecting my old iPods, and now with Retroactive being discontinued I haven't found a great alternative other than just buying an old Mac and I unfortunately don't have the space for one.
- philippemnoel 4mo agoI've been wanting this for so long. This is so clever. Slightly concerned Apple would patch this by preventing others from using the same bundle identifier as their official apps, though?
- masonwan 4mo agoThanks for the solution! I've been bothered with this issue for ages. Many times Apple Music also triggered by the Bluetooth devices which is super annoying. Apple really needs to implement a way to remove Apple Music completely.
- thought_alarm 4mo agoI use the built-in `hidutil` utility to remap F3-F9 to my preferred keys. F3/F4 are remapped to the keyboard backlight brightness. F5-F9 are remapped to be plain old function keys. This post has a lot of great info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555475 This is the mapping I use on an M1 MacBook: hidutil property --set '{ "UserKeyMapping":[ {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000FF0100000010,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x00FF00000009}, {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000000c00000221,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x00FF00000008}, {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000000c000000cf,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x00070000003e}, {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x000000010000009b,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x00070000003f}, {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000000c000000b4,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x000700000040}, {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000000c000000cd,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x000700000041}, {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000000c000000b3,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x000700000042} ] }'
- brynnbee 4mo agoThis was good info, thanks! Didn't think it'd be possible.
- ElijahLynn 4mo agobrew install notunes Then launch it once to say you approve startup Ventura and later: Navigate to System Settings Select General Select Login Items Click the + under Open at Login and select noTunes https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes
- thallavajhula 4mo agoI really like your approach. Smart. Personally though, I like AM opening up when I hit the PLAY button on my keyboard.
- vachina 4mo agoOr delete the Music app… zero processes required.
- saagarjha 4mo agoHow?
- martin_drapeau 4mo agoI'm so happy to have fallen on this. Apple Music launching on my Mac when I put on my AirPods drives me crazy.
- melonpan7 4mo agoThis is clever, I typically use Cider on my Mac or Linux machine, the notification that music is trying to play from another device (the cheapest plan only supports 1 simultaneous stream) is really annoying. I think it happens when I connect or take off my Airpods connected to my iPhone.
- 101112131415 4mo agoI can't go into music app because it blocked b a school and its guilderland
- 101112131415 4mo agohttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id3...
- akeck 4mo agoI vibe coded a similar thing using a combo of launchctl commands and Apple Script (closes Music app if it's open) with MS Copilot of all things. It works pretty well.
- longnguyen 4mo agoThis is nice. Somewhat related, I've been using this free, open-source app called BeardedSpice[0]. It solves my pet peeve of the media key doesn't always control the right app/browser tab. > BeardedSpice is a menubar application for Mac OSX that allows you to control web based media players and some native apps with the media keys found on Mac keyboards. It is an extensible application that works with Chrome (Canary, Yandex, Chromium) and Safari, and can control any tab with an applicable media player. [0]: https://beardedspice.github.io https://beardedspice.github.io
- news_hacker 4mo agoThe MacMediaKeyForwarder works like a charm: https://github.com/quentinlesceller/macmediakeyforwarder https://github.com/quentinlesceller/macmediakeyforwarder
- kevinmiller452 4mo agoI'd rather just use the launchctl method. Disabling the play button is fine by me since I control music from Spotify directly.
- adamgreen795 4mo agoThis is clever but I worry about running yet another background app just to fix Apple's dumb design choice.
- gcardone_ 4mo agoI hate how MacOS would start Apple Music every time I accidentally tapped my earbuds. To disable it I used an even lower tech solution, which works on corp laptops that don't allow installing arbitrary software: 1. Open System Settings 2. Navigate to Screen Time -> App Limits -> Add Limit... 3. Select "Music" and set an "Every Day" limit of 0 minutes.
- Geste 4mo agoI liked it but realised I couldn't watch anything on VLC while this ran. Too bad.
- carte_blanche 4mo agoI've been using noTunes to do this for years, works like a charm: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes Also a bit unfortunate that a software like this has to exist in the first place.