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QuadmasterXLII • yesterday at 8:08 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

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.

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wlesieutre • yesterday at 8:39 PM

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
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guywithabike • yesterday at 8:31 PM

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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cnity • yesterday at 8:49 PM

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

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Reason077 • yesterday at 9:07 PM

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

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tikotus • yesterday at 9:46 PM

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

tech234a • yesterday at 8:44 PM

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