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Music Decoy

brew install --cask music-decoy v1.2

Intercept media play commands to prevent macOS Music app from launching automatically.

Why you might care

If you use a different music player (Spotify, Apple Music via browser, etc.) but keep accidentally launching the native Music app when pressing play controls, this lightweight utility redirects those commands to your preferred player instead.

Categories

system-utility menubar

Alternatives

Spotify Apple Music VLC
562
30-day installs · #438
659
90-day · #857
1.1k
365-day · #1363

Links

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