Stop the Apple Music app from launching

It's very sad to see Apple using these lowbrow Microsoft tactics. Press ganging your users into launching your other shit product is brand cannibalism.

for 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"

Thank 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

Every 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.

Reading this title made “The Miracle of Joey Ramone” by U2 play in my head.

This is great! We need something similar for knowledgeconstructiond and several other overly insistent Apple software components.

I 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

From 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.

I 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

The lack of applications like this is why macOS will always be a superior alternative to Linux.

/s for the sarcasm impaired

Lovely. I don't press the play button by mistake much, but if i touch my BT headphones wrong...

I've been using this for a while now: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

Source code for this one: https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/MusicDecoy

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why this is the default behavior for a supposedly premium operating system.

The 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).

Thank you. Thank you.

Yes. Yes. Thank you. I wanted something like for years.

Or just switch to an Android phone.