iTunes is not listening to me

August 24, 2008 4:39 AM

My iTunes has a mind of its own. It keeps restarting even though I quit the program every time. What is wrong with it?

I have Mac OSX and iTunes 7.6 installed. Pretty recently (a day or so ago) I quit iTunes because I try to minimise the programs running on my computer if I'm not using them. After around a minute it started itself up without any input from me at all, and after this, however many times I try to close it iTunes always restarts.

It's starting to creep me out. Help?

posted by monocot to computers & internet (8 answers total)

Do you have an iPod plugged in? The default setting is 'open iTunes when connected'.
posted by pupdog at 5:03 AM on August 24, 2008

If you're running an RSS reader in the background, you might have the option "import all audio into iTunes" checked. Took me a while to figure out with NetNewsReader.
posted by monocultured at 6:18 AM on August 24, 2008

The Last.FM client will do this too, when it's open.
posted by softlord at 6:27 AM on August 24, 2008

I have the same problem. I narrowed it down to being the iscrobbler apllication I was running so I could scrobble my iphone on last.fm. If I end the itunes process in task manager (not useful for you though as im a windows user) it doesn't come back.
posted by gergtreble at 6:46 AM on August 24, 2008

Thirding the last.fm/iscrobbler plugin. I have a window that pops up, telling me that the plugin is still working and allowing me to force-quit, but if I let it quit on its own, iTunes pops back up.
posted by mewithoutyou at 7:05 AM on August 24, 2008

I tried force quitting iTunes once and now it's back to normal. Thanks!
posted by monocot at 7:15 AM on August 24, 2008

for me this was a dashboard widget that kept opening itunes. check if you have anything there.
posted by neustile at 8:36 AM on August 24, 2008

Just for future reference, I had this problem with a Yahoo widget (used to be Konfabulator, before Yahoo bought them out) - just about any widget that controls iTunes would re-start it, so I'd have to close Yahoo Widgets first.
posted by TochterAusElysium at 10:26 AM on August 24, 2008