using Automator

hello. So you are asking to have itunes NOT automatically download to your book purchased from other devices? Open itunes> preferences, at top of box click on store and the top is automatic downloads and you can tell it to automatically download (or, if it is checked, you can stop it).

Next look at devices- to right of store: it has a box to check to prevent ipods and phones from sync'ing automatically....(and speaker control too)

I hope this helps.

I am so sorry! Communication is the most fragile of human endeavors!

OK you want it to play a while and stop it, having automator do that? Hmmmm.

I will look into that...

hello again. I googled up "play album then stop' and found a page where a person wanted it to stop without constant playing...the response was to make a "playlist"with just one album (or as few songs as you want) and play that to go to sleep...

IS that sort of what you wanted?

I admit I was jsut reading the discussions... I am not an iTune person... time.

Just fire up Terminal and write

sleep AMOUNT OF SECONDS && osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to pause'

where AMOUNT OF SECONDS is replaced with the secs you want iTunes to play for. Like if I wanted iTunes to stop after a half an hour, i would write

sleep 1800 && osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to pause'

If you change your mind, just hit CTRL+C