Safari keeps playing an annoying music in the background.

Put the bookmarks.plist back, with safari quit.

Did you previously have any files in Home/Library/Safari/Extensions ?

Thank you andyball_uk . Good thing I hadn't empty the trash yet.Everything back to the way it was and no music ,unless I'm playing it YEAAA

To answer the last question,yes duplicate tab button,extensions playlist ,google tool bar and plain gmail.No extension's now in folder

I'm glad you rescued the bookmarks...

what does ' extensions playlist ' do ?

? Have no Idea .Maybe it was the culprit

I found it, at least for me...It is the GoogleToolBar 1.6 Extension. Just had to uncheck the Enable box.

RESOLVED: I knew it was a problem at the user level, since the problem did not recur in my test user account.
Dumping the two .plists didn't work.
I tried trashing everything in the Safari folder dated since the symptom showed; still no joy.
Finally I trashed the entire folder, but I saved the bookmarks .plist onto the desktop.
Fortunately, the problem was not in the bookmarks .plist, because when I brought that file back into the Safari folder, they all read without the annoying music coming back.
Still wondering what caused it. ????

This was my solution to this issue also Did anyone ever explain or show a way to eliminate the file or whatever it is?

I had the same experience, finally copied the bookmarks.plist to my desktop, trashed everything in the Safari folder, restarted and the annoying song is gone.

but I must say, I would love to know how something like this could happen - it's very invasive.

maybe you all had an extension in common ?

I had the same song play whenever I opened or clicked on a Tab in Safari, and it wasn't a song in my library, it was something with French words I think. I managed to get rid of it by moving the Home folder : Library : Safari .plist files for downloads and Session to the Trash.

I didn't need to restart the whole Mac, just quit Safari, Empty the Trash and restart Safari so I was sure it couldn't read those .plist files anymore. I can't be certain that was the fix though, because I also when into Safari Preferences, Extensions and deleted the Google Toolbar extension as that had been listed as a potential issue in this forum.

Of note, a couple days ago I went to some website where it started popping up a YouTube window that was quite small and had all the toolbars turned off and another hidden window with some reference to a sing called Andre Besson ( I think that's it if I remember correctly ). Anyway those windows were very hard to get rid of, because you couldn't access then sometimes even by selecting them in the Windows Menu pane. So I think those Windows may have implanted the code that kept playing the song at every Tab opening.

Once again:
Solution which worked for me:

Disabled GoogleToolBar 1.6 in Safari and restarted Safari. No deletion of any files necessary.

Have a nice spring time beginning!
Bolzman