iTunes keeps opening by iteself

I had a similar problem. It got so bad, Itunes was popping up every 15 seconds. My operating system is Windows 7. I wondered if simply uninstalling and reinstalling might solve the problem. I went to Control Panel, opened Uninstall a Program, clicked on Itunes and saw 3 options: Uninstall, Change, and Repair. What the heck, let's try Repair. It worked! Itunes has stopped opening up on its own. Nevertheless, I have my fingers crossed.

Having this issue as well and I don't sync my phone/ipod/whatever. I've unchecked all the things this thread and other similar threads have advised, and it's still doing it.

I've noticed that when my bluetooth speakers automatically connect/disconnects, this might be a trigger for zombie iTunes. Do any of you have bluetooth enabled and noticing the same?

Would love to find a resolution to this (besides uninstalling iTunes... next step).

I've had this problem off and on for years. Now that I think of it, it seems to be consistent with when I have speakers plugged into the headphone jack (can we get a Bose/Apple partnership here???). Anyway, I went into User/Applications/, secondary clicked on iTunes.app and clicked Show Package Contents. This opened up a new Finder window. Go to Contents/MacOS and find iTunesHelper.app. Instead of deleting it as recommended above, I simply renamed it. The problem went away for a while. When the zombie iTunes returned, I went back in and renamed iTunesASUHelper, which is one of those grey boxes denoting a UNIX executable file. The problem has been gone for about 20 minutes since I did that and I've jiggled the headphone cable quite a bit in that time. What I haven't done is to google what iTunesASUHelper does, so beware of that. I may have messed up something. But if I did, I still have the file and can rename it back to it original. When I renamed, I simply added "-disabled" to the existing filename.

All that said, I really think that whoever came up with the headphone jack getting confused by random electrical noise that triggers the next track, or play option in iTunes is really onto something. I'm fairly hard on my headphone jack. This is a Late 2008 Unibody aluminum 13" Macbook with ML 10.8.5 so it's going on seven years old. I do a lot of audio work, so I hardly ever use only the built-in speakers, and the headphone jack is usually connected to a set of decent speakers. So far, so good. Wish me luck! (Somehow, "Red 5, I'm goin' in" seems appropriate here though.)

Guys, I think this may be the solution. Simple, but this worked for me:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5255957?answerId=22792908022#22792908022

Feelin your pain elmnt, it's been doing this for about a week and is annoying the crap out of me. Will be keeping watch on the topic to see if there are any fixes available

I removed the itunes helper in system preferences under login items under groups. The problem went away

Update: iTunes still on a cycle of crashing, relaunching, repeat. Can't get it to NOT run.

@Demonhunter315

That totally fixed mine. THANK YOU.

Great! Glad that helped. My iTunes started acking up again so I guess its time to reboot. WHEN IS APPLE GOING TO FIX THIS???!!!???

I'm still having the same problem. Wanted to find out if there are any updtaes.

Thanks for this - wish I had checked this first

SOLUTION! It's because your Blutooth is on. Just disable your blutooth and itunes will stay closed.

stevene+me I'm having the same problem (headphone jack noise causes iTunes to start up)... I see no solution.

Fixed. I had to manually quit the "I Love Stars" app that I had just updated. Never had a problem before.

Genius! Works for me. Shame, as "I Love Stars" is a great app.