{"id":1489,"date":"2014-10-08T14:32:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T22:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscarey.com\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2014-11-25T16:40:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:40:56","slug":"how-to-stop-amazon-music-helper-from-running-in-the-background-osx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/how-to-stop-amazon-music-helper-from-running-in-the-background-osx\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop Amazon Music Helper from running in the background OSX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After installing Amazon Music on my mac, I noticed this background task &#8220;Amazon Music Helper&#8221; running. I tried to kill it, it came back.<\/p>\n<p>The fix I used was to remove execute permission on that file:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text blackboard\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;width:565px;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">chmod -x \/Applications\/Amazon\\ Music.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/Amazon\\ Music\\ Helper<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Then kill the process again and it shouldn&#8217;t come back.<\/p>\n<p>I have bought music since then and find that all the features (that I use) work fine. This thing isn&#8217;t even needed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After installing Amazon Music on my mac, I noticed this background task &#8220;Amazon Music Helper&#8221; running. I tried to kill it, it came back. The fix I used was to remove execute permission on that file: chmod -x \/Applications\/Amazon\\ Music.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/Amazon\\ Music\\ Helper Then kill the process again and it shouldn&#8217;t come back. I have bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prpYG-o1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscarey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}