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 5 hours ago | 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 4 hours ago | 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 4 hours ago \| 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.

▲ guywithabike 4 hours ago | parent | prev | 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!

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badc0ffee 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's the song I'd get docking my iPod in my stereo like 15 years ago. Strong memories.

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howunfortunate 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Add a custom song `AAAAAAA` that's just 60 minutes of silence?

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angry_octet 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Perhaps 60 seconds of silence and then the bass intro of Seven Nation Army kicking off at full volume.

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devin 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Then after your hour long drive it happens? Great!

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howunfortunate 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I figured more than 60 minutes might take up a lot of disk space. But maybe compression solves that.

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mdup 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It needs to be at least 320kbps or the silence will contain audible distortion.

	▲	cosmojg 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm sorry, but I only listen to silence if it's stored in 24-bit hi-res lossless FLAC.

▲ cnity 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reminds me of one of my favorite all time HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163667

	▲	Moru an hour ago \| 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.

▲ tikotus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Don't get me started with that U2 album I never purchased...

▲ Reason077 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If I had to pick one tune to listen to every day, that wouldn’t be the worst one.

	▲	lossyalgo 2 hours ago \| 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?

▲ tech234a 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Buying a USB data blocker for your car fixes this issue.

▲ kstrauser 5 hours ago | parent | prev | 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.

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Kamq 5 hours ago | parent [-]

At least on the android side, that's a setting. Not sure about the defaults though

	▲	kstrauser 30 minutes ago \| 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”.

▲ dockd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

▲ willtemperley 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.