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[ancarda]

I get something like this with Music.app -- it seems to randomly open. I suspect it's some kind of keystroke (i.e. hitting the play button) but I haven't figured out exactly why it's happening or how to stop it.

I'm pretty sure this didn't used to happen until I upgraded to Catalina.

I really wish I had better luck with Linux...

[sph → ancarda]

If no media is currently playing or paused and you press the Play button by mistake, the Music app opens. It's extremely annoying.

[jedieaston → sph]

You can get rid of this with

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist

(https://www.howtogeek.com/274345/stop-itunes-from-launching-...)

[cytzol → jedieaston]

Unfortunately, when I tried it, it made the media keys stop working entirely, not just stopping Music from opening.

[jdk → ancarda]

I get this semi-randomly when I'm using my bluetooth headphones/mic with Meet/Discord and then quit/close it and it becomes available to the OS or something. Music.app just pops up and as far as I can tell, there's no way to turn it off.