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pinkluxe Author

Level 1

11 points

Disable iTunes Autoplay After Importing a Song

Every time I drag and drop a song into iTunes to import it, it automatically plays the songs. Is there any way to disable this feature? All I want to do is import the song, not have it play after importing.

I know there were preferences to enable/disable this option is previous iTunes versions, but I have searched far and wide for a way to disable it and the few methods I found all seem to ENABLE it (which is seems to already be the default setting for me). Any way to turn this feature OFF?

Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 21, 2011 9:07 PM

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murphmocha

Level 1

4 points

Posted on Nov 3, 2011 9:42 PM

If you're using a Mac, open Safari go to Preferences under the Safari menu. On the General tab, uncheck "Open safe files after downloading". Seems crazy but it works! This was also driving me crazy when I imported both music and videos.

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nveer

Level 1

21 points

Feb 22, 2011 4:52 PM in response to pinkluxe

I would love to know how to do this too. I thought there used to be an option in prefs. but can't find it anymore. Is there a terminal command to turn this on and off?

nveer

Level 1

21 points

Mar 10, 2011 4:22 AM in response to pinkluxe

Same thing here. I downloaded the script but it only has an option to enable it, not to disable it. Anyone have a solution?

alibearo

Level 1

0 points

Mar 10, 2011 4:49 PM in response to nveer

This has been driving me absolutely bonkers for 3 months. I have googled and read every thread I could relating to this issue. Doug's AppleScripts did not work for me either.

pinkluxe Author

Level 1

11 points

Apr 21, 2011 7:47 PM in response to pinkluxe

Anyone?

Oct 29, 2011 2:18 PM in response to pinkluxe

One way you can get around this is by typing something into the search bar before you add the music. Itunes will add the music without playing it.

May 25, 2012 8:05 PM in response to Jeff Fischer1

Finally.

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pinkluxe Author

Level 1

11 points

May 25, 2012 9:25 PM in response to pinkluxe

Unfortunately the terminal command didn't work for me. Was really hoping it would, as nothing else has been helpful. I started this topic over a year ago and still nothing has worked for me 😟

Feb 2, 2013 6:57 AM in response to pinkluxe

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. :|

Feb 25, 2013 9:15 AM in response to pinkluxe

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.

May 21, 2013 8:06 PM in response to murphmocha

This fixed it for me!

Sep 11, 2013 7:56 AM in response to murphmocha

Thank you, thats realy helps me 😉

Drriddum

Level 1

0 points

Oct 9, 2013 10:40 AM in response to MacBandit

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..