On my MacBook Air, iTunes randomly opens and begins playing music. No matter what I do, it keeps doing this. I have tried pausing the music (it just keeps playing a few seconds later), closing iTunes (it just opens back up). It is really annoying and frustrating. I have only had my MacBook for a year now......and it just started playing Phantom of the Opera, The Point of No Return....now I'm scared.
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Hi sailormoonfreax,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
Are you closing the iTunes window, (clicking on the red dot), or are you actually quitting the application?
I would suggest force quitting the application, and then removing it from your Login items for your User account.
Another scenario that could be happening is a setting in Mountain Lion that reopens previously opened windows when you shut down or restart.
The articles below will explain these settings in more detail:
Mac OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3411
Mac Basics: Set your preferences
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2490
System Preferences controls system-wide settings ("global" settings), and is available from the Applemenu at the upper-left corner of the screen.
Click the General setting and you can choose whether or not windows re-open.
Click the Users and Groups setting to adjust your login items.
OS X Mountain Lion: Set up login options
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10650
I hope this information helps ....
Happy Holidays!
- Judy
It isnt just him... there's a huge thread of people, including myself, who say their iTunes is randomly opening (yes after being manually force-quitted) and playing and pausing music. It's terribly annoying and a fix would be much appreciated by many.
I too have experienced the seemingly random opening of iTunes and while I recognize this is a MacBook Air forum - the problem exists on my iPhone as well.
Mac OSX 10.9.1
iOS 7.0.4
I have narrowed this down to various scenarios all which have a common factor - audio alerts and the connection of my Bluetooth headset (I work remotely and have a Plantronics Voyager headset for use with my phone and Skype).
When the headset is not connected I can work all day w/o iTunes opening on either my Air or my phone. Connect my headset and which ever device is my primary (the Voyager supports two connections) that device is the one which opens iTunes randomly.
I believe this is due to the A2DP implementation in the headset.
cheers,
-z
It also happens when you have selected the random for screen savers.
One of them is Music and once its on it's keep playing on background.
FB
THANK YOU!!!! That was it for me. Hallelujah, I was goin nutz!
iTunes keeps on opening by itself and playing music!
