iTunes 10 re-opens after closing it

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iTunes 10 re-opens after closing it

Funny (but annoying) thing actually. When I try to quit (cmd+q) iTunes while a song is playing it instantly re-opens. But this only occurs every second time that iTunes is opened.
Was this explanation understandable? If not, let me know and I'll give it another try.

So is anyone experiencing the same issue? Or is there already a thread regarding that topic existing? I was too lazy to go through all the iTunes 10 threads, which are (unfortunately) way too many.

One more thing: I installed and then uninstalled iTunes 109 (a program that brings parts of the iTunes 9 interface back) and I have no idea if I had this problem before. Also deleted the apple.com.itunes.plist file in the preferences but it didn't solved it.

MacBook Alu, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 4, 2010 8:38 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 5, 2010 12:33 AM in response to whatever5234

Nearly same here. Really funny behavior.

When starting iTunes puts itself always in background. It always re-opnes after playing a song or any other media. After this iTunes closes as it should do.

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saquib

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Sep 5, 2010 5:15 AM in response to whatever5234

I'me having the same issue.

After I quit iTunes 10, it will automatically re-open! This is very annoying. Just upgraded to iTunes 10. Have cover-flow installed, but that was never running when I had this issue.

If you miss on quitting it the second time, it keeps running. Drains battery too. Very annoyed; these are the kind of thing I only expect in Windows based systems. C'mon Apple, help us with this!

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saquib

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Sep 7, 2010 9:11 AM in response to saquib

Meant to say "CoverScout" installed, not CoverFlow.

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Zgreen

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Sep 12, 2010 8:06 AM in response to whatever5234

Same issue. Application continues to re-open over and over again, no matter how many times I quit it. Weird.

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Answer 5

Sep 12, 2010 7:01 PM in response to Zgreen

Same for me too! I open the iTunes and a "preferences" box shows up trying to load, but never does. The iTunes itself eventually comes up, but as the rest have said, when I close iTunes, it re-opens and the "preferences" load starts up again. I have to close this preference box then iTunes. It's become more than annoying now.

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Answer 6

Sep 13, 2010 8:09 AM in response to whatever5234

Same here!
Worst thing is that 1 of 15 times it closes normally so... ¬¬

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Answer 7

Sep 14, 2010 5:06 PM in response to whatever5234

Under normall circumstances, I'd say that it would be a good idea to look for a fix, but honestly, with a problem this prolific, Apple's bound to fix it in an update sometime soon. Best not go mucking about with preference files and the like when there's a cleaner solution coming down the tracks.

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Answer 8

Sep 26, 2010 2:36 PM in response to whatever5234

bump.. I'm having the same problem here! At first i thought it was just something with my macbook so i restarted it and it keeps doing it, i did the update that just came out but its still having the same problem? Did anyone find a way to resolve it at all?

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Answer 9

Sep 26, 2010 7:36 PM in response to whatever5234

I found a solution...
I had instaled Gimme Some Tune, I uninstalled it and now it works fine.

Now we need to know if this is an iTunes problem or just caused by Gimme Some Tune.

I would really apreciate an "official" answer to this problem that is a lot more common than I thought at first...

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whatever5234 Author

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Sep 27, 2010 3:12 AM in response to Dunkelnebel

Yeah that's it! Since I deactivated Gimme Some Tune, iTunes quits like it should. Unfortunately GST is such a nice little add-on that I have not decided yet if I keep it deactivated or stay with the iTunes re-open thing.

Probably the next update will fix it: "GimmeSomeTune is currently in the process of being completely re-written from the ground up."

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whatever5234 Author

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Sep 27, 2010 4:38 AM in response to whatever5234

Alright heres the thing: Gimme Some Tune has to be deactivated just before iTunes. Therefor I wrote a very short script but now I have to quit iTunes by activating this.

Here comes the source .... wait for it .......... code:
tell application "GimmeSomeTune" to quit
tell application "iTunes" to quit

Anything beyond that exceeds my AppleScript "knowledge". So maybe someone with a little bit more skill can pick up the idea and write a script that opens iTunes, waits for the "cmd+q" and then shuts GST right before iTunes? Would really appreciate it!

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bwadma

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Sep 27, 2010 1:32 PM in response to whatever5234

I have the same problem, but I do not have GST installed.I fact, I did not know th tool before reading this thread. The re-open does not happen each time, but if it happens iTunes also starts playing. The update to 10.0.1 did not help.

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Answer 13

Sep 27, 2010 6:39 PM in response to bwadma

alright bwadma, i've never used gimme some tunes either so i was in the same boat as you until now, my itunes was acting up until i deleted two songs i had just downloaded for free from the itunes store, for some reason i guess i tunes didn't like it, i noticed this because every time my itunes would turn on, it would "start" this song. So i sent them to the trash, re-imported them and it works fine for now, its worth a shot lemme know what happens

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Answer 14

Nov 22, 2010 9:28 AM in response to whatever5234

I had the same issue. I have no widgets that use iTunes. Just a basic, fully-updated, iMac system.

iMac
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz
4GB Memory
Mac OS 10.6.5
iTunes 10.1

I looked in my preferences folder and there were about a dozen .plist files for iTunes. I deleted them all and the problem seems to have stopped.

Thanks!

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Answer 15

Nov 22, 2010 12:16 PM in response to UnauthorizedFilms

Nevermind! Still happening, now with a vengeance. It opens and starts plays music, intermittently skipping around to random songs.

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