I had to say that over and over and over again. Eventually it appears that I won.
Backstory: I’ve complained before that I dislike people who feel the need to push their accomplishments on me because they can. One of my life lessons is that I dislike things in others that I see in myself, so ….
But this is about them, and not me. 😉
I’ve complained that Microsoft, for example, couldn’t just add something to Windows, but they had to push it on every customer whether the customer wanted it or not.
I have the same problem with Apple and Apple Music. Specifically, when my car and my iPhone get near each other, they connect via Bluetooth. So far, so good.
If I happen to be listening to something, this is really nice. Say I’m walking to my car with my headphones on, I get in the car, and the iPhone and C-MAX figure it out and the audio keeps playing. This is excellent.
But if I happening to be listening to nothing, then that’s what I want. Some programmer at Apple disagrees. I end up listening to Apple Music because … why, again? Because some programmer feels the need to push his/her accomplishment on the world? Is that it? Please bother someone else’ life and leave mine alone.
So I get in the C-MAX, the iPhone sees the Bluetooth connection to audio, and the iPhone doesn’t see any audio app playing. So it launches Apple Music which picks some random song and begins playing.
I hate that.
Hmmmmm.
“Hey Siri, I hate Apple Music”
Siri replies: “Got it. I’ll remember that you don’t like this song.”
Hey Pinky – are you pondering what I’m pondering?
It worked.
The logic was “If I can get Siri to mark every song it has as do not play then maybe I won’t get bullied by the programmer that I insists I listen to something“.
It worked. Last night on my way home, the iPhone lit up Apple Music and found nothing to play. Sweet silence at last.
Well, until I said “Alexa, Playlist Earworm” and Alexa launched my Amazon Music playlist named Earworm:
- Darude Sandstorm
- Noisestorm Crab Rave
- Tony Igy Astronomia
- Nyan Cat
- Harold Faltermeyer Axel F.
- Drumspyder Rumba Hijaz