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Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by viraptor on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:44PM (#43968159)
> Apple Music is just an advertisement by default and "conveniently" opens every sound file mimetype

Not only that, but you get the advertisement every time it starts and then it doesn't play the actual file. So unless you join the service the process is: try to open the audio file, close the advert, go back to source, open the file again.

Re:Can You Really Trust That Permission Pop-Up on macOS? (CV... by andelink on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:57AM (#43969951)
Agreed the default experience is bad. You can however change the default app for each of the relevant file types. I’ve set my default to be iina