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If I'm reading all this correctly, it sounds like Apple has a system that will automatically play unintended music at various times from the music library. The only way to prevent this is to completely wipe out the entire library.

And the chief complaint is that there is an album in the library.

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> If I'm reading all this correctly, it sounds like Apple has a system that will automatically play unintended music at various times from the music library.

No, in this case the play command was coming from the attached device. Apple’s product was complying with the command in the only way it could, by playing the songs in the library.

That’s right. Various connected devices are over-eager to assume the user wants to play media, and command the phone into do so unexpectedly. This is fine if there is no media to play, but then all of a sudden, thanks to Apple’s decision, there was unwanted media to play, and this album would be the one always playing.

So the album didn’t cause the problem but it revealed it.

Of course it's not the only way to comply. The more sensible default is to continue playing whatever's in your queue. So if you had nothing there, noting would play.

If I'm reading correctly, the bug is in the car's audio control system.

Most cars work this way so phone makers should design around that.

Both are annoying as hell, but people found a workaround, and that album screws it again.

But yes, it's still the insult on top of the injury.

Because the presence of that album is what creates this bug and the user never purchased or downloaded it themself.

I have this same problem but it plays my wedding playlist from nearly 20 years ago. Some terribly annoying song I no longer like. I assume it’s too much work to delete my library and so I just deal with the annoyance.

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