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.
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.