Disable iTunes Autoplay After Importing a Song

That's bizarre. I could see that working maybe if you were downloading files with Safari but I can assure you it doesn't fix the issue most of us are having. For one I've always had open safe files off because there is no such thing as safe files. Second I'm talking about files auto playing in iTunes when importing CDs or importing sound files already on the drive into iTunes.

The idiotic suggestion that disabling "open safe files" in Safari not work (at least on a Mac using the latest versions of OSX and iTunes). I'm so sick of Apple claiming it listens to user feedback when they've been ignoring complaints about such an obviously stupid feature for 2 years. I don't think that, in reality, they listen to user feedback at all. It's like a suggestion box that has no other purpose other than to make users use up their energy venting.

I don't care why it works, but murphmocha's suggestion to uncheck "Open safe files after downloading" in Safarai/Preferences/General works! Now I can add new music without interrupting what I am listening to.

I can easily open any downloaded files by clicking on the "Show Downloads" icon and clicking the file I want to open. Problem solved.

Thanks, murphmocha!

Anyone got a solution for Windows users? This same thing happens to me and it drives me up the wall! I'm trying to setup my library and keep the music on NAS storage (I don't want to consolidate because I use the same music directory for other apps as well, therefore the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder is not an option for me). Cheers!

Your question is a bit different. The original question is to stop auto play. Your question is to stop importing. I assume you have some stuff you do want imported and organized but in this case you want to temporarily turn that off? If that's the case on a mac and it may be the same on a PC I'm not sure you simply hold down the command and option keys while dragging the files to the open iTunes window. This does not work by dragging the files to the iTunes application icon. You have to have iTunes open and hold command and option while dragging to the window.

Actually no, I did mean that I wanted to stop iTunes from autoplaying after it imports. Sorry, I may have worded it a bit oddly. Thanks for your reply though. In any case, PC keyboards don't have a command or option key on them. Not that this is an issue for actually getting the songs into the library, I've been able to do that without a problem. It's just the autoplay "feature" that get's really tiresome after you've been importing/sorting for a while.

Open iTunes, go to Prefrences, than go to Advanced tab, there change iTunes media folder location to wherever u keep your music, and it will import all your music files into library automatically, and what is most important it will not start autoplay.

Bonus to this is, if u add or remove files in that folder where you keep music, library in iTunes will auto update

Hope it helps

tom_bombadill wrote:

Open iTunes, go to Prefrences, than go to Advanced tab, there change iTunes media folder location to wherever u keep your music, and it will import all your music files into library automatically

No it won't.

Problem Solved For Windows

While import any folder just make sure that there is NOT any PLAYLIST in that FOLDER or any OTHER PREVIOUSLY Selected FOLDER which is supported by itunes, so in Short there should no Playlist imported wile importing folders and also delete any previous Playlist in any of your folder. .

Hope this will work for you. .

Hey there everyone!

In Windows 8.1 - I had the same issue regarding the "log in to your Audible Account" popup window, everytime I just open iTunes and/or import any music etc.

Well all I did is I did the following, and now no more Automatic play or Audible Account popup window!

• Go to your Music Folder / iTunes / iTunes Media /

• Then Delete the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder and close the window.

• Close iTunes ... if you had it open and Re-open iTunes and no more popup window!

Well that worked for me!

I know this is also a lame quick fix but if you press the pause button on the keyboard the music stops playing. The catch is that you have to wait until enough memory resources are available to support the task... I have 10GB of Ram and it takes a few minutes to stop the music playing while importing(and to execute all of the buttons it records me pressing while I'm frantically trying to get it to stop). I agree with everyone that has posted. It is a stupid issue that stresses out customers that can very easily taken care of by apple but they refuse to listen to the thousands. It's been 4 years now and ZERO HELP from apple on this as far as I can see. I wish Apple would contact me for a resolution. I'm a DJ and this has screwed me over many times while trying to do my job! Serato works hand in hand with iTunes so I know what I'm talking about.

Worked for me. Thanks.

Apple is something else. This megacorporation could easily have people scan Mac forums for feedback and patch problems. Apple gear is so expensive but isn't well maintained and upgraded.

E.g.: My music playlists disappeared about a year ago upon an iTunes 'upgrade.' Such a huge job to redo these playlists even though I had made a backup for almost everything.

Fuzzybunny

This is only indirectly associated with Safari, in that if Safari is set to "Open safe files after downloading," it will do just that, based on the Finder settings for the extension of the file concerned. For most people, Finder is set to open mp3 files with iTunes, so that is what Safari does: Safari is obeying your instructions. Disabling this feature means that files with other extensions, which you might well want opened with default applications, will simply sit there, doing nothing. So don't cancel this option, unless you are willing to open every type of downloaded file manually.

What needs to be changed, then, is the default application to open mp3 files. The current application (usually iTunes) can best be found by selecting any mp3 file and opening the Info window for that file with Finder menu item File>Get Info or Cmd-i.

Look down the Info window and find the section "Open with:" (if the little triangle preceding these words is pointing to the right, click on it to expand the section). Here you will see a drop-down, probably currently populated with iTunes; when expanded, the drop-down shows other apps capable of being used for that type of file. One would also expect to find an option such as "Do nothing" or "None." Sadly, this is not provided: one is forced to pick an application and that is what is causing the problem.

There is a solution, however, in the form of a System extension that provides just the "Do nothing" option that is required: RCDefaultApp(it's free).

Although this extension looks old, I have used it successfully with El Capitan.

Hopefully, a future update to OS X will provide its own "Do nothing" option.

Open safari

Go to safari- preferences- general - uncheck Open "safe" files after downloading..... That did the trick for me.. Good luck guys

Open Terminal and paste in the following, then hit return:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes play-songs-while-importing FALSE