We are in full swing of services like Spotify or Apple Music, streaming audio on demand has replaced digital purchases. Those people who continue to maintain a music library with their own audio files have become a minority, but they still exist.
If you are one of those people, you probably do not want to hear about Apple Music and it bothers you that in the Music application there is an integration of this services and regular notices offering you to subscribe. Or maybe you are subscribed to Spotify, you use Music to save rare songs that do not exist in online catalogs and you also want to get rid of that integration. Getting it is very easy.
Use Music’s own restrictions to your advantage
Open the Music application on your Mac and open its preferences panel from the ‘Music’ menu (or by pressing CMD +,):
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In that panel, go to the ‘Restrictions’ tab. The first four options are used to disable music profiles, Apple Music, the iTunes Store, and shared libraries from the interface. If you deactivate ‘Apple Music’, all suggestions and parts of the interface dedicated to that service will disappear:
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You can also disable ‘iTunes Store’ if you do not intend to buy digital music, or ‘Shared Libraries’ if you are clear that you are not going to play what you save on yours from someone else’s Mac in the same household.
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When you have completed this you can click on ‘OK’. Music will be now a local music file player, nothing more. No links to stores, no offers for you to subscribe to anything. It may seem contradictory in 2021, but there are those who appreciate these tweaks.
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