iTunes opening on its own!!

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iTunes opening on its own!!

For some reason iTunes has started to open of its own accord. I have the iTunes logo in my Dock then out of the blue it opens without any prompting from me.

Does anyone know why this has just started happening and how to stop it?

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iMac 3.06Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Jan 16, 2011 10:55 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 16, 2011 2:21 PM in response to Schrodinger56

It's usually caused by third-party programs or widgets related to iTunes. It can also be caused by having external speakers connected.

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Answer 2

Jan 17, 2011 5:58 AM in response to Diane Wordsmith

None of those apply in this case.

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Answer 3

Jan 17, 2011 7:26 AM in response to Schrodinger56

Do you perhaps use last.fm?

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Answer 4

Jan 17, 2011 8:24 AM in response to Schrodinger56

iTunes may also open when you connect an iPod or iPhone or iPad. Is iTunes set to open when you connect a device?

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Answer 5

Jan 18, 2011 2:47 AM in response to Diane Wordsmith

Diane Wordsmith wrote:
Do you perhaps use last.fm?

That rings a bell but I cannot find or see it on iTunes.

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topcop1

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Feb 7, 2011 6:35 AM in response to Schrodinger56

I too have a similar problem. All of a sudden the first tune on my music list just starts playing. This happened in the middle of the night and again about 10 minutes ago.

I have not added anything recently and cannot figure why this is happening. ITunes opens when I place my ITouch in the dock, but it doesn't necessarily start playing a tune. Last night the ITouch was not in the dock.

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jpolen1

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Mar 15, 2011 3:47 PM in response to Schrodinger56

I've been having trouble with this myself. I have no problem getting iTunes to open when I connect my iPod and it syncs without a problem, but when I finish and try to close iTunes, it closes then immediately opens again. At first, I thought this was a problem with my iPod, but today I'd opened iTunes on it's own so that I could fix some tags and it happened again. Once I finished, I shut down iTunes and it immediately opened again. After going through this four times, I finally had to use the task manager to kill not only iTunes but the iTunes helper.

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Answer 8

Mar 15, 2011 10:03 PM in response to topcop1

Exactly the same here. This is happening without any devices being attached and just starts playing on the first tune in the library. This has been happening intermittently for some months and I can't get any response from Apple on this.

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