iTunes just starts up by itself and it plays 1st song on my list

randomly reproduceable ! .. freaking f* jack

Had that problem first time i tried "slideshow"in iphoto.

Then in the middle of the night! itunes started up even though my computer was asleep.

1- Shut down completely

2-push left shift key while turning back on (this is a safe boot mode)

You will see the wheel spin,The lower bar loading

It takes a minute,

Then it askes your log in,

Log in, Check if everything works,

3-restart, And you should be o k.

I just wish this worked to fix mountain lion,

That thing slowed every thing down.

Hi, apparentely i found a solution, not sure if its the right one but it worked for me.

Went to itunes preferences, then devices and finally clicked at "forget all remotes". After doing that itunes didn´t launch by itself anymore

For me, it's the earphone jack. I realized a movie starts by itself when I leave the earbuds plugged into my macbook. It's kinda scary when it happens, thanks for all the audio jack suggestions, that solved it!

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Hi everynoe,

I have a brand new Mac mini i7 and have this same problem as have been reported here by several persons.

Onyx repair and cleaning does help for some time, a day or so but then it starts again. You just don't have time to run Onyx all the time!

I have done everything you guys have pointed out but with no positive result.

iTunes opens randomly and starts playing music or podcast and if I close it it opens up again right away. It prevent me to shut down the computer. It is mostly random but one thing triggers it: if I put a file in the trash can and sometimes if I move a file from one folder to another folder.

This is dirving me crasy!

I'm shocked to see this is a problem that has been showing up for years and Apple doesn't seem to be able to fix it!

Help!

I recently bought an Orbitsound box for the tv that has an optical-in (connected to the tv) & also a bluetooth link which I (stupidly) paired to my imac as a bluetooth external headset - great for listening to music while in another room, but now everytime the Orbit sound box is turned on to watch the tv, (without selecting a bluetooth connection on the Orbit sound box, itunes launches itself and starts playing the songs in the itunes library from which ever users account is open; even though I've set the Mac back to Internal Speakers. It seems like the Mac 'sees' a bluetooth broadcast in some way and starts playing on the internal speakers. The only way I have found to stop this behaviour is to remove the Orbit sound from the list of bluetooth devices, - I can't turn bluetooth off, as the keyboard is bluetooth, this feels like a bug in OSX to me, as it not intuitive behaviour. Just for ref this is on OSX 10.8.4, 21.5 iMac 2011.

The issue is somehow connected with the headphone plug. The mac jack doesen't be 100% standard, even if it accepts most headphone plugs. When ever theres a momentary loss of contact in the jack the computer seems to interpret this as a new device being plugged in, and automatically launches iTunes, thus assuming that you connected your phones to listen to music. They're made the OS too clever thinking that we users are all morons.

I was using a Bluetooth keyboard with my Apple TV yesterday. Suddenly my MacBook (OS X 10.7.5), in the next room, started playing a tune. I have nothing connected to the headphone jack, so I'm guessing the Mac picked up the keyboard (which is paired with both the ATV and the MB) and determined that I needed to hear "Crazy Train" by Jughead.

I've been meaning to come back to this post for awhile, for my orbit sound problem, the solution was to open up bluetooth preferences on the mac, click advanced, and tick "reject incoming audio requests".

What would be great here, is for the user is able to decide which of their bluetooth device wake the computer or play. The current implementation feels a bit too dumbed down! Anyway, the advanced settings might be worth a look...

Thanks for that! I will play with Advanced Settings and see if the phenomenon is repeatable and if rejecting audio requests works to stop it.

Professor sound wrote:

The issue is somehow connected with the headphone plug. The mac jack doesen't be 100% standard, even if it accepts most headphone plugs. When ever theres a momentary loss of contact in the jack the computer seems to interpret this as a new device being plugged in, and automatically launches iTunes, thus assuming that you connected your phones to listen to music. They're made the OS too clever thinking that we users are all morons.

The good Professor has come up with an explanation that "fits all known facts" . . . . . . The "key text" (to which I have added a few phrases to in an attempt to make his explanation more general) is:

. . . . . the computer (in my case an i-pad) seems to interpret this as a new device being plugged in (or a new device being connected) and automatically launches iTunes, thus assuming that you connected your phones (or your computer / i-pad only) to listen to music. They're made the OS too clever (proscriptive in) thinking that we users only wish to listen to the music in I-Tunes whenever we "connect".

In my case, I have just bought a cheap and cheerful "Dock" and each time my i-pad is mounted on the "Dock" guess what? I-tunes starts automatically.

. . . . If however I have started (say) BBC i-player ot TuneInRadio before I "Dock" (read as connect) my i-pad that audio "wins". Interestingly, watching a film when the I-pad is "Docked" sometimes over-rides the i-tunes and sometimes does not.

So, thank you Professor Sound . . . . I only disagree with the use of the word "morons". . . . The mistake that has been made (IMHO) is that the designers are in error in assuming that the only (or main) use of the computer / i-pad is to listen to I-Tunes and making that a default action when it is "connected" to something "new".

It should be easy to present an option on the screen along the lines of:

"Start I-tunes?".

ℹ FIX: I find if you go to (System Preferences - User & Group - Login items - Remove iTunes helper or if not logged remove the song which plays every time you log on.)

Hopefully it works 😐

This worked for me:

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

Running 10.8.5 and iTunes 11.1.3.

Eliminates "Play" button on Mac keyboard from launching iTunes but, more importantly for me, stopped headphones (direct in + bluetooth) from accidentally launching iTunes.

Huzzah!

You hit the nail on the head. Same prob for me, thanks Scorpio!