Disable iTunes Autoplay After Importing a Song

wandyfromnew york,

I am not sure why you mention Safari when everyone is talking about iTunes.

When I download a PDF I want safari to open that. That has no relation to iTunes.

When you download a movie or an mp3 and safari opens that "safely", it opens iTunes. Becuase your default player is probably iTunes.

Everyone,

I have a MAC so I will only explain what is going on on a MAC OS.

When you import a file into iTunes (from the file menu) it won't play the movie/audio. The same happens when you drag and drop your files into iTunes window, which essentially means import).

When you drag your files to the iTunes icon (in the dock), you are telling iTunes to play the files! Basically you are draging the files to the iTunes Application, which will open iTunes and PLAY your files.

So in iTunes, the "import" function is when you drag files into the iTunes Library, or you click on file>Add to Library..., otherwise dragging the files to the iTunes App is telling iTunes "play" these files or this file and NOT import.

Hope this was clear.

Another example, when you drag a file to your VLC application (in the dock) that file will PLAY in VLC. When you drag it into the playlist it will add/import the file to the playlist.

Cheers!

This worked really good for me.

I have a main folder on an external hardrive that holds all 400-something GB of the music I have in Itunes.

Assuming that you have a main folder for Itunes music, there should be a folder in there called "Automatically add to Itunes."

Whenever you download music from somewhere other than Itunes, just drag those files to that folder and they automatically get added to your Itunes library. And the best part, Itunes will NOT start playing those songs.

Hope this helps

There's a program called Secrets that will allow you to turn this off. It installs as a system preference and gives you options to all sort of hiddens preferences most Apple programs.

http://secrets.blacktree.com/

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

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

Finally.

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Hey guys,

I was looking for a solution on this forum than i have realised that i have got the best solution for this. This Auto-play function is so lame and it should be turned off in preferences. Anyway if you are a music addict like me and if you want to keep listening your pre added music while adding (dragging - dropping new music folders to itunes ), you should use this simple app to add new music :

'Music Folder Files Not Added'

Now you are able to do both:

which files and folders are not added to your library,

and you will be able import them without auto playing them.

this is so simple.

cheers.

anyone have an updates to this? very annoying. Just got a new iphone and having to use itunes again.

I had to mute itunes in the volume mixer.

Very intuitive apple. :|

I hate apple so much for that.

I'm watching a movie right now, and every minute the smart ithuns is playing songs from my 450GB music files I'm importing to the libery.

Such a stupid program.

This fixed it for me!

Jeff Fischer1 wrote:

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

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

Did not work with iTunes11 Mac OSX 10.7.5

I just have to remember to turn the iTunes volume down prior to importing / refreshing my monster server music folder to get the newest tunes I've added.

Thank you, thats realy helps me 😉

The Answer lies in Safari NOT iTunes.. Simply go to Safari Preferences and under the General tab at the bottom untick "Open safe files after downloading"

And Note "Safe" files inc Movies, Music, Pictures, Sounds, Pdfs. And Archives..

This definetly works on every mac I've been asked to sort!!

enjoy!

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.

Hey good point- I missed that aspect of the question.. Im downloading most of my stuff so the issue is sorted through that option in Safari - If I think of anything else, I'll post..