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Disable Apple music from opening when pressing play / pause / media keys on Mac and Headphones

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Run this command to disable it

# Disables it immediately
launchctl bootout "gui/$(id -u "${USER}")/com.apple.rcd"
# Prevents reactivating on restart
launchctl disable "gui/$(id -u "${USER}")/com.apple.rcd"

To revert to the default behavior

launchctl bootstrap "gui/$(id -u "${USER}")/com.apple.rcd"
launchctl enable "gui/$(id -u "${USER}")/com.apple.rcd"