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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

58 replies

Sep 16, 2014 1:56 AM in response to zedbo

At least with windows 7 you can go into the sound mixer and mute iTunes individually. That option is not available under Mac... As I'm finding out the hard way...

Jan 14, 2015 7:02 PM in response to wandyfromnew york

This is why iTunes keeps automatically playing newly downloaded songs! Problem solved.

Apr 5, 2015 6:02 AM in response to Drriddum

This worked for me as fas as files downloaded from web sites. Thanks for the tip.

May 26, 2015 5:14 PM in response to pinkluxe

Open up the Safari Preferences panel and under the 'General' tab, unclick the option titled "Open safe files after downloading".

Hope this helps!!

@JenniferJayy83

Chris CA

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May 26, 2015 5:24 PM in response to JenniferJayy

JenniferJayy wrote:

Hope this helps!!

It did 4 years ago when it was posted on the 1st page of this thread...

Mirozlaf

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Aug 17, 2015 6:09 AM in response to murphmocha

Thank Murph..It works!

🙂

Sep 29, 2015 7:00 AM in response to wandyfromnew york

This is the correct solution.

Songs that play automatically are a function of Safari - not iTunes.

I've got OS X 10.10.5 and iTunes 12.3

Nov 18, 2015 9:09 AM in response to JenniferJayy

I have done this and it does not work for me. Come on Apple

A$B

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Nov 22, 2016 10:41 PM in response to wandyfromnew york

It worked for me✅. Thanks for your help.

elzebio

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Jan 3, 2017 8:59 AM in response to wandyfromnew york

thanks

Lexzie

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Apr 10, 2017 6:40 AM in response to wisso

Actually, his solution worked! Thanks to him!

Jun 25, 2017 3:09 PM in response to Jeff Fischer1

I quit iTunes, issued the command, then re-started it— It worked! This really ought to be a user-facing preference.

Nov 16, 2017 5:56 PM in response to wisso

thank you for answering actual question.

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Disable iTunes Autoplay After Importing a Song