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[akhunaton]

Whenever I turn off my Bluetooth headphones, Media Center will start playing music. This happens even if i am only watching youtube. How do I keep MC from doing this strange thing? ? thanks!

[JimH]

Stop the playback before turning off?

[akhunaton]

The playback is already stopped. this happens even when there is nothing playing on media center at all. If MC is in the background and I am listening to youtube etc. in chrome. when the earbuds are turned off by putting them back into its charging case, MC plays whatever was the last thing.

[JimH]

Stopped or paused?

[akhunaton]

Stopped. after further testing I see that it will start playing whatever was the last zone's last track played. I tested on 2 different Bluetooth headphones. Cowin E7 and Shokz openfit air. EDIT: Simply turn on Bluetooth headphones and then when I turn it off, the music plays from the beginning. Even with MC in the background.

I am using an Mac M4 Max Studio.

[Djordje]

I am using Apple AirPods Pro and have a similar nuisance. Any time I put them in my ear or take them OFF - MC gets the "play" command from Mac OS.
Is there any option to disable "autoplay" by OS command/event?

[Cooksons]

I am using Apple AirPods Pro and have a similar nuisance. Any time I put them in my ear or take them OFF - MC gets the "play" command from Mac OS.
Is there any option to disable "autoplay" by OS command/event?

I am having the exact same problem and just created a new post before seeing this one.  This happens whenever my Mac autoconnects to my AirPods--MC begins playing in the background (i.e. it's not the active window).

[Cooksons]

Hello,

I recently updated to MC 33 from MC 32, which seems to have coincided with a new issue.  From what I can tell, whenever my Mac Studio automatically connects to a Bluetooth device (e.g. when someone calls my phone and my Mac tries to take the call and I'm wearing my Airpods), MC 33 begins playing (i.e. autoplays) my entire music library from the Audio>Album Tagging View window.  I have searched the web and cannot find a way to prevent this.  Thank you for any help.

[zybex]

Try this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254362133?sortBy=rank

[Cooksons]

Thank you.  I did attempt to turn off Autoplay in the Music app on both my Mac and my iPhone and, wow, I cannot seem to make the infinity icon appear without subscribing to Apple Music.

Am I missing something?

[zybex]

This is perhaps a per-app setting.
For MC, try disabling the Media Keys option, or change to a different mode: Options > General > Advanced: Media key mode

The underlying problem is that some Bluetooth headphones like yours will issue a play/pause keypress when docked, and the application has no way to know if it was the user that pressed the button or not.

[Djordje]

This is perhaps a per-app setting.
For MC, try disabling the Media Keys option, or change to a different mode: Options > General > Advanced: Media key mode

The underlying problem is that some Bluetooth headphones like yours will issue a play/pause keypress when docked, and the application has no way to know if it was the user that pressed the button or not.

Makes sense. Options > General > Advanced: Media key mode > Disabled killed it, no more unwanted Plays.

[Cooksons]

Very strange.  My Media Key Mode is already Disabled.

I just reproduced the issue by wearing my AirPods and having my wife call my phone.  Immediately, 1) a notification popped up on my Mac Studio (top right corner of screen) asking me to answer or decline, 2) JRiver MC started playing (track playing notification box popped up at bottom right corner of screen), and 3) the Playback Problem screen popped up dead center in front of what I was doing (see attached).