iTunes 8.2.1(6) randomly starts playing music

Same issue here. I found a set of old speakers in my shed yesterday... Work well. But when they are plugged in, every 5 seconds, I will hear a static the gets louder until it 'pops', causing iTunes to open. This happens every 10 seconds. Has also started happening with my internal speakers. They pop and start iTunes. APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS!

2013 non-retina MacBook Pro, OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks, iTunes 11

The below patch worked for me.

You will need to run it every time when there is an iTunes and/or OS update.

http://www.thebitguru.com/projects/iTunesPatch

Hi! i myself have had this issue with my newly purchased iMac. iTunes would just randomly pop up and start playing music. The cause for me is that when i was typing on my keyboard i would accidentally touch the F8 key, which is the play/pause button. this caused itunes to open and play a track. Hope this helps!

I had the same problem.

Solved it by terminating the process "iTunesHelper" via 'Activity Monitor' and then removing the same process from the login dock

Link: Use Activity Monitor on your Mac - Apple Support

Two steps:

Step One:

Go to "Finder"

Click "Applications" on the left sidebar

Scroll to "Utilities" and double click

Sort processes by name by clicking the header bar

Find "iTunesHelper"

Click to highlight

Request to terminate/remove

Click ok

Step Two:

Make sure you're logged in to the admin account for the computer

Open "System Preferences" icon menu

Click "Users and Groups"

Click on the "Login Items" (It's a radio button tab next to the "password" option)

Highlight "iTuneshelper" to select it. DO NOT CLICK THE CHECKBOX TO HIDE THE PROCESS

Once process is highlighted, select the minus symbol " -- " (it's the one next to the plus "+" symbol, below the checkboxes that you shouldn't click)

On some machines, a pop up box will appear and ask you if you really want to terminate this process.

Click ok to terminate.

Problem solved. No more conference calls will be interrupted!

I checked my permissions and someone called Wheel listed. I've deleted them and things seem ok for now.

Thanks 🙂

I have the same problem too.. at first, I thought I screwed something up but now I realize it's apple's update that did it.

The Apple advisor I just talked to had me do a PRAM Reset. It seemed to of worked.

Heres how you do that:

Shut down computer

Turn it on

Hold Command, Option, P, R, and don't let go until you hear the Apple start up sound a second time.

Boot as usual