iTunes starts up whenever I connect my bluetooth headset

Tried this, and also modified "CDs & DVDs" setting percrystalship

One/both seems to have finally worked for me, but after I changed the settings and logged out (then back in).

Problem :

While using bluetooth headphones on a call, iTunes would autostart and autoplay whatever content I'd last selected manually (movies, podcasts, etc). Was driving me CRAZY, particularly when on a conference call. The autostart would set itself off 5x, meaning I'd have to cancel or stop play multiple times before I could shut down iTunes, meaning I'd lose minutes of whatever conference call I was hosting or contributing on. BAD iTUNES! Why isn't this more readily customizable???

(Running into this lately, as the headphones are a recent purchase. Was using standard earphones prior to purchase.)

Gear :

headphones / Bose SoundSport bluetooth

desktop / iMac (mid-2011) on Sierra 10.12

phone / iPhone 5S

I've seen my problems solved by removing execution rights from the remote control daemon, by doing:

sudo chmod -x /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS

This question was first posted in 2010, it is now less than a month from 2018 and this remains an issue.

In nearly 8 years the only "solutions" are hacky workarounds, that is just sad.

We are talking about a simple ON/OFF switch for auto play here! I guess it takes courage to ignore such a simple fix for so long.

My bluetooth headphones have this great feature where when I take them off, it automatically pauses the media being played and when you put them back on it resumes. On my Windows PC and Android Phone this works exactly as you'd expect, no configuration needed.

BUT, on this awesome MacBook Pro, which I am forced to use for work, every time I decide to take my head phones off and then put them back on iTunes launches and starts playing music.

Does anyone know how to keep iTunes from launching when you turn on your bluetooth headset? It looks like this question remains unanswered and I am really interested in a solution as the default behavior of launching itunes just because I enabled a bluetooth device is extremely irritatiing.

I also have the same issue with my Rocketfish RF-MAB2 headphones. Is anyone there at Apple going to address this? I have looked in the preferences and can't find anywhere to change this behavior, which is really annoying.

Also this workaround does leave iTunes installed just renamed and I have used this

workaround on Snow and Lion.

Alternatively you can substitute other behaviors ( like starting Skype ) using the same basic method above just use your app or choice, or a link to your app, instead of the DNA.app.

Maybe Apple will one day realize the following statement:

Bluetooth != iTunes

;-)

Same problem here with Arctic P311 bluetooth headset

I want to use them for SKYPE

whenever I start them up and chose "use as audio device"

ITUNES pops up, it is VERY annoying

APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP!

System preferences/Advanced/etc. did not work.

I am using Logitech H800 bluetooth headset. I also am tired of iTunes autorunning when I hook up my headset. I am not opposed to iTunes itself, but I will endeavor to uninstall it from my work computer if I do not find a solution to this problem.

Even though I have 8GB of RAM, I have to carefully manage my memory. I often have running several Adobe Creative Suite applications, a web browser, plus Parallels Desktop with 4GB of memory assigned to it. Having to often reboot anyway, I hate the fact that an additional program has to be factored into the equation-- with no benefit to me at that time.

I am a die-hard Apple fan from longer than many of you have been alive. When stuff like this happens, it makes me doubt my loyalty. I bleed in six colors!

Steve

Same here with the Logitech UE 9000 Bluetooth Headphones. This is driving me nuts.... payed 400 bucks for these headphones. funny as logitech says they were 'built for apple'.

how could this even happen? who does the programming for apple, steve ballmer or what?! even connecting the headphones is a tough job if they were connected to another device before.

i wonder why apples product and service quality decreases more and more but their prizes don't. other companies use to decrease in both ways.

You can use an app called Bluetooth Proximity to run an apple script whenever your headset goes out of range. Then, at least, restarts won't trigger iTunes and shred whatever's left of your RAM on older machines.

One catch: you need to find or write the script that stops iTunes from launching.

I'm using a SoundFreaq bluetooth speaker and have the same issue and it drives me crazy. I must say that since upgrading to Mountain Lion it has been as if Apple was trying to give me a Windows experience. Takes much longer to boot up the computer, I have had lots of compatibility issues, cannot get my Sonos music library to update, had to buy the new MS Office for Mac as my previous version became obsolete and on and on. I upgraded mainly to get Apple TV with mirroring capability but have been really disappointed with that as well. I cannot mirror DVDs unless I buy a program that coverts and stores the movie on my hard drive, when I do mirror the streaming is jerky.

Past upgrades have been seamless and impressive. This has been pathetic.

I do believe that you have solved my problem! I am having trouble believing it was something that simple, but I applaud your Mac OS knowledge, sir!

I will report back if the problem returns, but I consider this solved. Kudos!

Steve

First of all, does anyone still have a Users and Groups category in the System Preferences Menu? Second of all, killing startup items was the first thing I did when trying to snuff iTunes. Unfortunately, iTunes Helper doesn't appear among selectable items under the System > Accounts > Login Items menu. I've killed it manually in the Activity Monitor, but iTunes still resurrects every time my headset reconnects after I've walked just out of range.

"First of all, does anyone still have a Users and Groups category in the System Preferences Menu?"

Yes. Anyone running Lion or Mountain Lion. If you see accounts, you're running an older version of the OS.

If my suggestion doesn't work for you, oh well. I'm glad it helped someone else.

steveburchett wrote:

If it runs at all, that is unacceptable.

Easier would be to just manually quit iTunes.

I agree it's unacceptable, but I haven't found anything else to do about it.

Ever try to "just" manually quit itunes in this situation? It goes like this.

#1. iTunes starts minimized, and the foreground application gets laggy.

#2. iTunes starts playing music, often in an explosive and embarrassing audio outburst.

#3. You frantically switch to iTunes and bang command-Q.

#4. Absolutely nothing happens.

#5. Because, it popped up a dialog saying "oh hey, having trouble syncing some of your videos." Command-Q doesn't close that box.

#6. You hit command-Q again, but that gets intercepted by another dialog asking for your password to log into the iTunes store to get downloads.

#7. You hit command-Q AGAIN, and it says "Hey, I'm downloading podcasts. You really wanna quit?"

#8. You bang "Yes, I bleeping do."

#9. More swap while your system recovers.

I'm serious. it usually happens when you're trying to use another fat application that calls for a headset, and if you're like me, you also have a browser with 8 windows, Word, Adobe etc. etc. open.

That's why it's so useful to kill it <2 seconds into step 1 before it can start holding court.