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iTunes keeps opening itself

Whenever the computer is on (iMac 2GHz, OSX 10.4.11) iTunes keeps opening itself. Never did this before but recently ( a couple weeks ago) I allowed an auto software update, that's about the only change I can think of, but it only started doing this a couple days ago. I close the application and within a couple minutes it has opened itself again, underneath whatever application I happen to be using (close that app and there is iTunes, opened again lurking under the app window I was looking at). It does this over and over, even when the computer is in sleep mode.

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iMac 2 GHz, OSX 10.4.11

Posted on Mar 26, 2009 4:53 PM

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Posted on Apr 25, 2017 6:20 PM

I was having this issue before realizing I was the inadvertently causing it. My AppleTV sits, under my TV, on a wall in my living room facing my iMac which sits a short distance away on the opposite wall (if you can picture that). Turns out that the plastic frame around my TV was reflecting the signal from the apple tv remote back to the computer on the opposite wall which was triggering the iTunes app and causing it to open and play when I was just trying to watch Hulu on my apple tv 😊. Hope this post eases the insanity I imagine some of you (in my boat) are feeling.

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Apr 25, 2017 6:20 PM in response to 9 iron

I was having this issue before realizing I was the inadvertently causing it. My AppleTV sits, under my TV, on a wall in my living room facing my iMac which sits a short distance away on the opposite wall (if you can picture that). Turns out that the plastic frame around my TV was reflecting the signal from the apple tv remote back to the computer on the opposite wall which was triggering the iTunes app and causing it to open and play when I was just trying to watch Hulu on my apple tv 😊. Hope this post eases the insanity I imagine some of you (in my boat) are feeling.

Apr 17, 2009 10:47 PM in response to Diane Wordsmith

Hi. I have the same problem. Today iTunes has opened itself dozens of times. Each time I close it, it launches again in a matter of minutes. I actually don't use iTunes very much - it annoys me generally and more so that it now opens every few minutes, slowing down my work. I have had to trash it to get some peace. I do occasionally use it so I would like to fix the issue. I do not have any plug-ins whatsoever in my iTunes library and I only have the usual Mac widgets, which I also don't use.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Apr 27, 2010 5:36 AM in response to 9 iron

Hi,
I bought a new core i5 macbook pro a couple of days ago and started getting this problem about 2 hours ago and didn't know what was happening. Everything was disabled, including taking the battery from the remote out, yet itunes was still starting up.

I just found something but not sure if it's the cause of the problem. My audio cable was not connected properly and when i moved it, itunes would start up again, and kept moving it and kept starting up, and while open, i would move it again and it would play songs. I disconnected it and plugged it back in, tried moving it and it would not start itunes. I think this has to do with the port supporting the apple earphones with remote on them. Lets hope this fixes it and if so, hope it helps others.
Luis

iTunes keeps opening itself

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