stop itunes from opening on CD insertion?

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stop itunes from opening on CD insertion?

I often insert an audio CD for the purpose of copying a track to my hard drive or to make a copy using toast. How do I stop iTunes from launching and offering to play or import the CD???

iTunes 9.0.2 on G5, osX 10.4.11
iTunes 9.0.2 on Macbook Pro osX10.5.8

thanks in advance

g5, 1.5 ram 1.8 gHz single proc

Posted on Dec 14, 2009 7:59 AM

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Jolly Giant

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Dec 14, 2009 9:48 AM in response to soundman_peter

soundman_peter wrote:
I often insert an audio CD for the purpose of copying a track to my hard drive or to make a copy using toast. How do I stop iTunes from launching and offering to play or import the CD???

iTunes 9.0.2 on G5, osX 10.4.11
iTunes 9.0.2 on Macbook Pro osX10.5.8

thanks in advance

on the 10.5.8 machine, go system preferences > CDs & DVDs. there's a pop-up for +when you insert a music CD+. choose ignore.

does that fix it ?

as for tiger, haven't had a tiger system for a long while but i bet there's a similar system preference option.

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Dec 14, 2009 11:01 AM in response to Jolly Giant

ofcourse! thanks!!! idiot!!!!! (me)

thanks again 🙂

peter

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jk78

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Dec 28, 2009 8:06 AM in response to Jolly Giant

any idea if there is a key to hold down to suppress auto-run preferences? I don't want to permanently disable the "action on insert" preference.

in windows, i believe you could hold down SHIFT while inserting a CD to suppress auto-run.

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Jolly Giant

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Dec 28, 2009 8:23 AM in response to jk78

hi jk78 and welcome to the discussion area.

see if you find anything here Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts.

if not, take a look @ Ukelele.

good luck !

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Chris CA

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Dec 28, 2009 8:23 AM in response to jk78

in windows, i believe you could hold down SHIFT while inserting a CD to suppress auto-run.

That stops autorun content on the CD from running.
That does not stop WMP (or whatever) from opening when a CD is inserted.

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