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tombonez / noTunes

A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching.
MIT License
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Update for MacOS Catalina #3

Closed elstgav closed 4 years ago

elstgav commented 5 years ago

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

tombonez commented 5 years ago

Hi @elstgav

No problem at all, once Xcode is re-installed I'll get this updated.

Quick question, now that the iDevice interface is integrated into Finder, can you think of any reason to keep the menu bar icon? It's basically the only reason I added it and I can't think of a reason to keep it, launching the app at startup can then just be set in user preferences.

If you'd prefer the menu bar to be kept I'll just leave everything as is 👍

Cheers, Tom :)

elstgav commented 5 years ago

Hey Tom,

The menu bar isn’t a concern—it’d be nice if the app can run without it. I mainly use the app to prevent iTunes/Music from launching when the play/pause button is pressed. I have headphones that connect to my phone and laptop, and pressing play will usually control the phone. But sometimes it gets confused and tries to activate my computer, which gets annoying with iTunes launching.

Thanks!

Gavin

tombonez commented 5 years ago

Hi @elstgav

No problem at all :)

I've uploaded a pre-release version of the app in releases.

Everything should work as expected, the app just currently doesn't support launching on startup (this can be added manually via user preferences if needed) or hiding the menu bar icon (I'll probably just release two versions of the app).

I should find time this evening to finish things up and I'll let you know once updated so you can hide that pesky menu bar icon ;P

Any issues just let me know.

Cheers, Tom :)

elstgav commented 5 years ago

Thanks Tom, works like a charm! Look forward to the no-menubar release 👍

evamaxfield commented 5 years ago

Just wanted to say thanks for this update as well! :)

elstgav commented 5 years ago

@tombonez Any update on removing the menubar icon?

tombonez commented 5 years ago

Just wanted to say thanks for this update as well! :)

Thanks @JacksonMaxfield appreciate it 🙂

@tombonez Any update on removing the menubar icon?

Sorry for the wait, I was hoping to find time todo this properly (one single app with ability to hide the menu bar icon), but found myself with little.

For the time being I've compiled a separate version without the menu bar icon, it can be found in releases.

Any issues just let me know 🙂

BKmetoff commented 5 years ago

@tombonez hey Tom, big thanks for the effort! :) :)

elstgav commented 5 years ago

Thanks @tombonez, I appreciate you spending your spare time on this!

ChrBach commented 4 years ago

Hey Tom, thanks for this, really appreciate it!

Bryan88418 commented 4 years ago

Howdy Tom, thank you SO MUCH for making this... it's a real headache cure!

How do you open iTunes with the NoMenu version?

tombonez commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the awesome comments everyone, really appreciate it!

Howdy Tom, thank you SO MUCH for making this... it's a real headache cure!

How do you open iTunes with the NoMenu version?

Hi @Bryan88418

You'll need to quit noTunes for iTunes to be opened when using the no menu bar icon version.

As there is no UI in this version, you'll either need to use Activity Monitor to find and quit the app or use the following command in terminal: osascript -e 'quit app "noTunes"'

Cheers, Tom :)

BitProcessor commented 4 years ago

Just perfect - got really annoyed by the Music.app starting on certain bluetooth events and found this via a comment somewhere. Thanks! 👍