Prevent AirPods from opening Mac's Music (iTunes) app?
Solution 1:
I don't believe there's currently a way to disable this.
Squeezing the stem triggers "play" on the device it's connected to, and as of now there is no way to alter this behavior.
Therefore the only solution is to disable "play" from opening Music on your Mac. Unfortunately, solutions to this no longer work with the current version of MacOS.