kewjo

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255008235

this thread goes back to 2023, most of what i gathered is play/pause signals will open music if there’s no other media open. and it looked like most of the settings get reset on updates or just don’t work for some. i don’t care too much though its my work machine and gave up trying to fight bad software and just quarantine it so it has as little impact as possible.

i couldn’t find any setting, unless my company policies block it. it is a new m4 macbook so maybe it’s a newer thing? if i use my headset for work calls it launches everytime and if it reconnects opens it again. their own forum points users to install notunes via homebrew and set that to run at login. even if this were a setting it doesn’t even make sense for being a default except as a dark pattern to push people into their stack. you can’t even uninstall the music app or default apps.

on my work Mac I have to download a third party app that has to run in the background to disable the Music app from launching when my earbuds connect via Bluetooth. people hate Mac more because they generally force features on you that are just weird, and when i close a window, i want to actually close it.

I’m guessing the s stands for shit? otherwise they would say security, probably afraid of making the claim it’s actually secure

i think if you have it in fstab that forces kio to wait. instead of adding to fstab i just right click and add smb to places in dolphin for a direct link. dolphin doesn’t hang on load anymore, auto mounts and even sends wol, might comment it out from fstab or set noauto to see if it speeds up dolphin