I’ve been running Macs for 30 years, and I use Bluetooth headphones too, I’ve never had that happen before. There has to be some setting somewhere that’s causing this to happen, and I assure you it’s not on by default.
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.
I assure you, this is not default behavior. I use three different pairs of Bluetooth headphones on my new M4, MacBook Pro, and it does not do this. I’ll dig around and see if I can find the setting which may be stupidly hidden somewhere, and I’ll let you know if I find it. I can definitely understand how this could be extremely annoying.
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.
Seems like a bug that some people experience. I guess I’m just one of the lucky ones that do not.
I’m very sorry that you experience this.
This is one of the weird quirky things that happens sometimes with Apple stuff – – a small group of people were experience a persistent quirky behavior/bug, and because 95% of people don’t experience it, it will largely go underdressed.
I fully understand and appreciate how such a tiny thing can become an aggressively, huge annoyance.
But something you brought up in your first comment: it generates an entire ecosystem of FOSS (sometimes not, looking at you iStat devs) developers who create fascinating little software projects to deal with these little annoyances and quirks, and almost all of these little software projects are incredibly clever and innovative, and can sometimes be software developers first projects. Over the decades, I have come to lovingly refer to them as “crack developers” because they develop software to fill the cracks in the otherwise “flawless” macOS façade.
I’ve been running Macs for 30 years, and I use Bluetooth headphones too, I’ve never had that happen before. There has to be some setting somewhere that’s causing this to happen, and I assure you it’s not on by default.
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.
I assure you, this is not default behavior. I use three different pairs of Bluetooth headphones on my new M4, MacBook Pro, and it does not do this. I’ll dig around and see if I can find the setting which may be stupidly hidden somewhere, and I’ll let you know if I find it. I can definitely understand how this could be extremely annoying.
What brand of headphones are you using?
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.
Seems like a bug that some people experience. I guess I’m just one of the lucky ones that do not.
I’m very sorry that you experience this.
This is one of the weird quirky things that happens sometimes with Apple stuff – – a small group of people were experience a persistent quirky behavior/bug, and because 95% of people don’t experience it, it will largely go underdressed.
I fully understand and appreciate how such a tiny thing can become an aggressively, huge annoyance.
But something you brought up in your first comment: it generates an entire ecosystem of FOSS (sometimes not, looking at you iStat devs) developers who create fascinating little software projects to deal with these little annoyances and quirks, and almost all of these little software projects are incredibly clever and innovative, and can sometimes be software developers first projects. Over the decades, I have come to lovingly refer to them as “crack developers” because they develop software to fill the cracks in the otherwise “flawless” macOS façade.