Hello tombonez,

You deserve an award for this. I hated iTunes for interrupting my work.

Here is a screenshot of what it looks like when you turn on the noTunes app (menubar version) and block iTunes.

I thought the screen shots would be helpful
The solid black circle is blocking iTunes.
If the circle is clear, iTunes can pop up.

On Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6 the app launches but has no effect. iTunes still launches with media key presses, whatever state the menu button is in.
I tested with both the menu and non-menu versions.
Am I missing something?

By running the command below I managed to get Notunes to open my preferred app, Adobe Audition, instead of Apple Music when I doubleclick .wav and .mp3 files. But Audition doesn't actually open the file.

defaults write digital.twisted.noTunes replacement /Applications/Adobe\ Audition\ 2024/Adobe\ Audition\ 2024.app

Just wanna leave a thank you note.
This app is a blessing!

Cheers! 🙂

macOS13 sometimes does not work, the specific scene cannot be reproduced

Just wanted to make an issue to say thanks for putting this together. Everytime I connected my bluetooth earphones Apple Music would open up and I'd need to shut it down. Now I don't. Good work.

That is all. :)

After a recent upgrade to 13.5.2 (22G91), Apple Music will still launch occasionally. Most of the time I get the suppressed "dock bounce", but sometimes Music will launch fully.

it would be great if you could return the display of a hidden icon by launching an already running application

I found this truly working solution referred from Reddit, and I'm so glad that you created it, thank you so much!

It would be ultimately cool if a Brew package would be also available to install this little lifesaver from wouldn't be?

Hello! I downloaded noTunes and it certainly did kill Music's abiity to launch, but I can't turn noTunes on or off. Also I can't tell if it's even active. When I click on it, I get no menu bar. I can check the contents but it doesn't show up as an app on my MacBook Pro. And also I can't send it to the Trash because it says it's open... Your help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Catalina removed iTunes to create the new “Music” app—can this be updated to block that as well?

Hey @tombonez I just wanted to thank you for creating this. It drives me crazy when iTunes launches unexpectedly. Thank you.

First I'd like to echo the majority of closed issues just saying thank you for creating this.

Have you considered extending this app (or making a different app) to prevent a selection of the built-in junk apps, e.g. Books, Photos, News, etc.? Maybe as like a dropdown menu with checkboxes?

Thanks again for your work. This is a must-have.

When hitting the play/ pause button the music app starts on.

Firstly, this is great. My headphones have a touch pad on one ear to pause the music, but iTines intercepts that and decides to open. So this app kills it. Almost. I find that Music.app still opens but is then killed, and this makes the dock jump.

It may be a limitation of the listener approach in the code of your app. It seems odd that Apple allows the Dock to show the app launching but then other listeners are notifier and get a chance to interact with it and kill it I would expect the notifications to be sent before the Dock is notified).

Anyway, unsure if there is a fix, just logging it.

noTunes lets you change the default music player with the command "defaults write digital.twisted.noTunes replacement /Applications/YOUR_MUSIC_APP.app", as stated on the readme. However, this is really the only feature I'm using noTunes for, so I'm wondering if it's possible for this functionality to be isolated, or if there's already another app that can do this.

Firstly, thank you for the app, it's fantastic!

A feature that would be fantastic would be to prevent the AppleStore from opening when we access URLs such as: https://apps.apple.com/br/app/uniprime/id1103400481

Thanks!

I'd like to use Keyboard Maestro to set noTunes to Disable Music, close Music, kill the AMPLibraryAgent process and then eject my external drives so I can 'undock' my laptop - but activating noTunes does nothing

In the Readme, you give instructions on how to set an alternative application as the default music player. Unfortunately, YouTube Music doesn't have an application—it's a URL. Could you indicate whether it's possible to set a webapp as the default music player and, if so, how?

Sorry to make an issue for it but I wanted to reach out in someway and say thanks.

Hi there, I just found out the app and it works great, thanks for building this ❤️

After #15, I'm wondering if a macports package is in the cards. I'd be happy to help out but I would need some guidance on the build process, since macports compiles everything from source

Manual shasum verification reveals the same as homebrew on MacOs Monterey / shasum v 6.02

Error: SHA256 mismatch
Expected: 0ad78b0a7bb2e0bb724f0de65107d5397c5a32e1d974f7b3533acc8a0dd129e7
  Actual: 8daa083e952f03ae0559b59487adb1203b503c27c5762e59bd16a8d3dc381075

brew install notunes fails with:

Error: SHA256 mismatch
Expected: 0ad78b0a7bb2e0bb724f0de65107d5397c5a32e1d974f7b3533acc8a0dd129e7
 Actual: a74cb21de2c5b872e95422414abd1017d8f5a69dccc528e3c2d41cae97d582e8

xxx
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.

brew 3.4.6
macOS Monterey 12.3.1

installs from brew successfully, but does not show menu icon, or appear the defaults if you try to restore/find it.

I'm running Monterey 12.1 on a 2018 mac book pro.

let me know if theres any testing i can do to help diagnose this.

Would be great to have an option to add automatically notunes within the apps that automatically start on a system reboot.
I added manually it under Settings > Users & Groups > Login item.
Would be easier to use to have this option within the app itself.

Thanks Tom :-).

Hey @tombonez,

I'd potentially be very interested in a version of noTunes which blocked the Music app but not iTunes (and would absolutely be happy to discuss payment for your time on this). If you'd have any interest in that, then let me know how best we could talk privately.

Thanks very much,
Duncan

Great tool.

Disabling the menu bar icon doesn't work for me, unfortunately. If I perform a right-click, it has the same effect as a left-click. The menu doesn't show up.

Tried it on Monterey & High Sierra.

Modifying the property list is not an option because it's not being created on both systems.

A good workaround for me would be to just use an older version which has no menu bar icon. It's not an option, though, because of the expired certificate. Is there a way to replace it manually with the one from 3.2+?

Edit:
I'm using a trackpad, not a mouse. If I enable the "secondary click" (two fingers), I'm able to open the menu. I'm also able to hide the icon that way on Monterey (not on High Sierra). Apparently, the right-click using command and the right-click using two-fingers create different signals.

what about VoiceOver? no way to close hotkey( COMMOND+F5), it conflict with IDEA.

(base) ➜ ~ brew install --cask notunes
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac/version.rb:33:in block in from_symbol': unknown or unsupported macOS version: :dunno (MacOSVersionError) ...from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac/version.rb:33:in fetch...

Gotta start with the big thank you!
Clicking the microphone button on my headphones (Bose 700) launching Music while on a video-call was horrible.

This application mostly works, but I've noticed the Music app still shows app as a recent on the dock (see attachment)
I've already google it and apparently there's some way of messing with plist and editing stuff to hide a certain app of ever showing up, but I wonder if there's a automatically way of achieving it with your app.

So the behaviour I've noticed is:

• Music is not in the dock (I never use it)
• In a meeting / video-call
• Click the microphone button to mute/unmute myself (it mutes only on the headphone itself, not on Teams)
• I check the Dock, and the Music show up there as "recent"

Running on macOs BigSur 11.3.1 / intel hardware

Thanks!

Mac OS: 13.2.1 (22D68)

I followed steps here:
#20

• Icon is in menu bar
• Icon has the "cancel" 🚫 overlay
• Either with a default app (Spotify) or with defaults deleted as in the above steps

The behavior is as follows:

Love the app, makes my life easier.

How would I go about running this on startup?

Asking as not a power user. I know if it was in the dock then I could add it to startup items by right clicking.

This is a question, not a bug report. I hope that's fine.

In addition to using noTunes, I unloaded remote control daemon (via launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist).

If I remember it correctly, using both makes sense. By unloading remote control daemon (rcd), the Music app oftentimes doesn't even get launched (so there's no "Dock hopping"). noTunes, on the other hand, quickly kills the Music app if it is launched by an event that has nothing to do with rcd.

I'm wondering now if this is correct, i.e. if there are in fact non-rcd-related events that lead to unwanted launches of the Music app. If yes, what are these events?

(I'm aware that unloading rcd, unlike using noTunes, disables the media keys. This is fine for me. I'm trying to understand if using both methods at the same time actually makes sense.)

Edit:
As far as I can tell, the virtual media keys (Control Center) are not covered by unloading rcd. That's enough for me to keep using both methods simultaneously. I'm going to ghost-mode now. Feedback on this is still much appreciated, though.

update readme - login items under general now

love this solution!

The current one expires on Jan 14 07:39:19 2022 GMT.

I installed noTunes. I ran defaults write digital.twisted.noTunes replacement /Applications/Spotify.app. After I ran that, I also ran osascript -e 'quit app "noTunes"' and then re-opened noTunes just to make sure my defaults change was applied.
The problem I'm having is that the f8 (play) button on my keyboard does correctly toggle over to the Spotify app now, instead of launching iTunes. But that's all it does. If I hit the button again to play music, nothing happens. In fact, none of the function controls (previous track, next track, play) work anymore.
This is true for both my Apple Magic Keyboard and also for my Keychron K4 Pro. Same behavior.

Yep, this works to keep Apple Music from opening. Great, actually!

But, I cannot actually assign other audio editors to open files except once per session. Once I let the computer fall asleep, and start working with audio files again, noTunes works - but I cannot open the file by double-clicking in another app that I assign to open them. It just doesn't open anything, except for that ghost of Apple Music that tries to pop up in the dock.

How to I get Apple Music to just 'go away', all the way?