CLI Music Stop

ed music stop

Stops the active player and resets its position to the start of the track.

ed music stop [--json] [--player <name>]

Name	Type / values	Default	What it does
--json	flag	off	Emit JSON on stdout.
--player	builtin, spotify, apple	whichever is active	Force one player.

{
  "action": "stopped",
  "name": "Apple Music",
  "player": "apple"
}

ed music stop
ed music stop --player apple

Apple Music has a real stop verb and gets it. Spotify and the built-in player do not, so stop there is a pause followed by a seek back to zero: two verbs in one AppleScript for Spotify, and two posted commands for the built-in player.

Where to go next

• ed music, the rest of this group
• All ed commands