Lyons in beta

2025-08-07

I have a pair of over ear bluetooth headphones that have an auto-pause/play feature when you take them off then put them back on. Handy! Most of the time. Unfortunately, macOS has decided that the Play command the headphones send obviously means that I want Apple Music to launch and start playing whatever the first song in my library is.

Think about the incredible hubris of that design decision.

Apple Music doesn't just resume playback if it is open and was being used recently, it will launch the application and start playing whatever the first song in your library is. And if you don't use Apple Music like I don't that means the first thing in your library is U2's Songs of Innocence. There is no setting in Apple Music to prevent it from automatically launching. Apple Music cannot be uninstalled. There is no way to remove Songs of Innocence from an Apple Music library.

Luckily, where trillion-dollar companies fail, one generous open-source developer succeeds! noTunes is a thing that should not need to exist but I'm grateful it does.



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