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holdupagain | on: Apple Music 404 Not Found
We have evolved to iPhone dark pattern updating to suddenly starting Apple Music in my car bulldozing Spotify and me almost getting in a fucking car accident every time.
QuadmasterXLII | parent | next
My car plays "Africa" by toto every time I plug in the iphone to charge. It was a trifling inconvenience, then over years it became rage inducing, and now it's reached all the way back around to funny.
wlesieutre | root | parent | next
It's not the phone deciding to do it, when the device connects the car is telling it to play. Check your infotainment settings to see if there's a way to turn it off.

Apple doesn't have an official way to prevent it, but I think you could do it with Shortcuts and an automation to pause music triggered by "When CarPlay is connected."

If it's tricky to get it to trigger at the exact time it starts playing, you could even do like:

  - Store media volume to a variable
  - Set media volume to 0
  - Wait 3 seconds
  - Stop playing
  - Restore original media volume
stouset | root | parent
Yep. My old Honda Fit did this way before CarPlay. I believe it’s a holdover from external mp3 devices using track numbers in their filenames.

It was always a stupid decision to start playing your music alphabetically, but it became a more stupid decision when music libraries were no longer carefully curated folders in the filesystem.

jasomill | root | parent
MP3 player interfaces which were originally integrated via CD changer interfaces that start from the first track of the first disc and play tracks and discs sequentially unless shuffle is enabled, which is a pefectly sensible default for a CD changer.
guywithabike | root | parent | next
Mine was A-Punk by Vampire Weekend. Used to annoy me to no end, but it turned out it was a "feature" of the car stereo to just default to playing alphabetically. Buying a new car fixes that little issue. Easy!
badc0ffee | root | parent | next
That's the song I'd get docking my iPod in my stereo like 15 years ago. Strong memories.
howunfortunate | root | parent
Add a custom song `AAAAAAA` that's just 60 minutes of silence?
angry_octet | root | parent | next
Perhaps 60 seconds of silence and then the bass intro of Seven Nation Army kicking off at full volume.
jasomill | root | parent | next
I used to have a copy of the THX theater intro sound effect as the alphabetically first track in my library for this purpose. Not quite 60 seconds, but starts off quiet and served as a reminder to either choose a track or shut the music off.
devin | root | parent
Then after your hour long drive it happens? Great!
howunfortunate | root | parent
I figured more than 60 minutes might take up a lot of disk space. But maybe compression solves that.
mdup | root | parent
It needs to be at least 320kbps or the silence will contain audible distortion.
cosmojg | root | parent
I'm sorry, but I only listen to silence if it's stored in 24-bit hi-res lossless FLAC.
jasomill | root | parent
Real audiophiles demand uncompressed WAV.
gnabgib | root | parent
So you don't know what FLAC is, bit of a wasted joke
crimsontech | root | parent
A real audiophile can hear the difference between FLAC and WAV.
loading story #50218130
cnity | root | parent | next
Reminds me of one of my favorite all time HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163667
Moru | root | parent
It is getting increasingly hard not to think of my Androids that has never done anything like this. It just continues on exactly the location in the last played song or whatever else I was playing. Audio book, radio podcast, movie, whatever. It just picks up from where I was.
Reason077 | root | parent | next
If I had to pick one tune to listen to every day, that wouldn’t be the worst one.
lossyalgo | root | parent
If there's anything I've learned from using my favorite tracks as a daily alarm: there is no music that I won't eventually start to hate :(

It's gotten to the point after 15 years that I've stopped trying, for fear of ruining even more good music.

I have noticed too that some people are more/less prone to this, which makes me wonder: is anyone completely immune? Are there people who, no matter how often they hear a song, will still love it?

tikotus | root | parent | next
Don't get me started with that U2 album I never purchased...
tech234a | root | parent
Buying a USB data blocker for your car fixes this issue.
kstrauser | parent | next
That's a "feature" of the vehicle's infotainment system. Some of the vehicles I've driven run Music the moment I connect my phone. Others are more respectful and wait for me to tell them to play something.

The aftermarket CarPlay adapter I installed in our Toyota is in the latter group. When I climb into the car, the CarPlay UI pops up on the vehicle's screen, ready for me to ask it to do something. Until I do, it does nothing other than show the homescreen with icons on it. A Ford I rented would fire up Music the second I plugged my phone in.

Kamq | root | parent
At least on the android side, that's a setting. Not sure about the defaults though
kstrauser | root | parent
Hmmm, I’d have to see it. It’s basically the car saying “ooh you’re an MP3 player, play some music!”, and the phone is like, “oh, okay, you’re relaying your owner’s request so I’ll take your word for it”.
willtemperley | parent | next
Have you tried “ A a a a a Very Good Song”?

It is 9 minutes of silence so that U2 album you never asked for doesn’t start playing at the most dangerous part of the journey.

dockd | parent
Yes! "Aaron Burr, Sir" starts in Apple Music. "Hey, Siri shuffle liked songs on Spotify." Queue "Aaron Burr, Sir" again until I pick up my phone and tap Spotify. Make it stop.