How to stop Apple Music from randomly popping up

It is popping up randomly, no time frequency, sometime it's 5 minute sometime it's 1-2 hour. Apple Music is popping up randomly.

I have Mac Sonoma. If someone have found any solution let me know. I'm now recording my screen all the time if I can catch the behavior.

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Mac mini, macOS 14.4

Posted on Mar 14, 2024 5:22 AM

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turingtest2

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Mar 16, 2024 6:05 AM in response to thesamratc

I'm not sure what is causing this to happen but for others it can be triggered by Bluetooth headphones. You might try this utility https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes which should be able to prevent Music launching when you don't want it to.

tt2

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