Q: frigging iTunes!
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Apr 17, 2015 8:42 AMby Limnos,I use iTunes 7.5 There is button in advanced iTunes preferences which sets "Use iTunes for Internet playback" but it isn't specific as to what that means (it may just mean radio streaming). There is no unset option so I don't want to test it. I am guessing it edits any browser configuration files so it sets each browser's settings (as we have been mentioning) to use iTunes. To unset this (at least with my version) you have to go to the browser's settings and do it there, not through iTunes which only sets it. This kind of setting is standard behavior when installing some applications but they almost always ask you something along the lines of"Do you want to use iTunes for Internet playback?" when you are actually installing the application, with the option to say "no".
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Apr 17, 2015 8:48 AMby CroMagnum,How are you downloading the files?
It reads by implication as though you are NOT downloading using iTunes. As though you are downloading them to a folder first.
If you are downloading them to a folder, you can go to GET INFO on individual files and re-map them to another default application. “Open With” drop down.
(Sorry Limnos - I didn’t realize you were not the OP).
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Apr 17, 2015 8:44 AMby Ruben Tomasov,ed2345 wrote:
That is a setting in your browser that tells the browser what to do with various kinds of files.
Please refer to answer to turingtest2
For example, in Firefox, go to Options > Applications, and make sure that the entry for "MP3 Audio" is not set to iTunes.
Cannot use Firefox because of some glitch which I could not resolve even after having re-installed it many times: any page you try to open will first show an alert to the effect that there is no certificate? (or other,can't exactly remember) so that you open the page at your own risk.
(Safari and other browsers have similar settings.)
Please refer to answer to turingtest2
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Apr 17, 2015 8:59 AMby Ruben Tomasov,Limnos wrote:
If things are opening immediately upon downloading using a browser you may also need to change your browser's application support settings. Please refer to my reply to turingtest2.
If they are opening automatically in iTunes it is something else doing it. If it truly is something else doing it then downgrading iTunes won't help you. Please refer also to my reply to turingtest2. It used to be possible to choose whether to have iTunes to open a downloaded audio file or not.
However, as I have already said, it is possible for a browser to be configured to automatically open a file in a second application the instant the application downloads. Please refer to my reply to turingtest2.
Clearly something is telling iTunes to play your downloads, but that isn't a setting in iTunes, and downgrading iTunes won't change the behaviour. See above.
That is a setting in your browser that tells the browser what to do with various kinds of files.
Do we concur?
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Apr 17, 2015 9:00 AMby Limnos,With reference to my even older version of Safari, and web searches, it seems Safari does not have a list of association applications the way many other browsers do. It simply presents you with the option to open files on download and then lets Finder handle it. As for changing Finders application preferences, we're back to my first post I made in this topic.
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Apr 17, 2015 9:06 AMby Ruben Tomasov,CroMagnum wrote:
How are you downloading the files?
It reads by implication as though you are NOT downloading using iTunes. As though you are downloading them to a folder first.
I'm downloading from YouTube, mainly.
If you are downloading them to a folder, you can go to GET INFO on individual files and re-map them to another default application. “Open With” drop down.
That is not the issue, what I don't want is to iTunes to automatically open a downloaded audio file and add it to the library; please read all posts.
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Apr 17, 2015 9:14 AMby OldGnome,Aaargh.....OK.
I suggested the Safari update because it's possible the default behavior cannot be changed in the older versions of iTunes and Safari.
May I ask a question that might have been better asked earlier - has this combination of Safari, iTunes and OS X always behaved this way?
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Apr 17, 2015 9:16 AMby Ruben Tomasov,Limnos wrote:
With reference to my even older version of Safari, and web searches, it seems Safari does not have a list of association applications the way many other browsers do. It simply presents you with the option to open files on download and then lets Finder handle it. As for changing Finders application preferences, we're back to my first post I made in this topic.
Safari is losing bit by bit (or byte by byte) features it used to have before newer versions.
Finder's application prefs is not an issue
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Apr 17, 2015 9:22 AMby Ruben Tomasov,turingtest2 wrote:
Ruben Tomasov wrote:
I'm downloading from YouTube, mainly.
What tool lets you download from YouTube? The idea is that you watch content on the site, not copy it, or the audio from it.
There is a small app called YouTube to MP3 which allows you to do it.
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Apr 17, 2015 9:32 AMby Ruben Tomasov,Limnos wrote:
I use iTunes 7.5 There is button in advanced iTunes preferences which sets "Use iTunes for Internet playback" but it isn't specific as to what that means (it may just mean radio streaming). There is no unset option so I don't want to test it. I am guessing it edits any browser configuration files so it sets each browser's settings (as we have been mentioning) to use iTunes. To unset this (at least with my version) you have to go to the browser's settings and do it there, not through iTunes which only sets it. This kind of setting is standard behavior when installing some applications but they almost always ask you something along the lines of"Do you want to use iTunes for Internet playback?" when you are actually installing the application, with the option to say "no".
I have iTunes v10.7 which offers no alternative as with v7.5.
Can't remember which was the latest version to allow to do it though; it may probably the one I downgraded to a long time ago which I referred to on my original post.
