How To Stop That One Song From Playing When You Connect Your iPhone to Your Car

How To Stop That One Song From Playing When You Connect Your iPhone to Your Car

You know the one. You know it all too well.

Just about anyone with an iPhone or a Mac is haunted by the first song in their iTunes library. It's the one that starts playing automatically when you connect your phone to your car. The one that kicks on when you accidentally press the play/pause button on the headphones connected to your Mac. Maybe you used to like it, but that was long before you heard its first few seconds unwittingly, dozens of times.

There's no way to stop the playing, so the trick? Make sure you can't hear the song.

'A a a a a Very Good Song' by Samir Mezrahi isn't a particularly catchy jam, but it does two things very well. It sits at the top of your iTunes library when sorted in alphabetical order, and it makes absolutely no noise for two seconds shy of ten minutes. That gives you a whole lot of buffer time to either pause, or select a new track. If you don't, of course, you know what song is likely to come up next. And beware, since your iPhone tries to play from the last-used music source, so this may not work if the last thing you were listening to was an audiobook or a podcast.

Mezrahi's banger is available on iTunes for the customary $.99, but there's also a free alternative. All you need is your own silent track and the ability to come up with a title for it that will place it at the top of your list. Of course, if you throw Mezrahi a buck for giving you the idea and the song scoots up the charts, maybe Apple will notice the demand for a software update. Or maybe it'll just take its cut of the profit and smile.

Either way, you won't have to listen to that one, unavoidable, road-trip-starting jam anymore. Unless you want to! But at this point, why would you?