Comments on: iTunes is not listening to me

Question: iTunes is not listening to me

monocot — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:39:51 -0800

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?

By: pupdog

pupdog — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:03:01 -0800

Do you have an iPod plugged in? The default setting is 'open iTunes when connected'.

By: monocultured

monocultured — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:18:59 -0800

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.

By: softlord

softlord — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:27:15 -0800

The Last.FM client will do this too, when it's open.

By: gergtreble

gergtreble — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:46:14 -0800

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.

By: mewithoutyou

mewithoutyou — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:05:44 -0800

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.

By: monocot

monocot — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:15:55 -0800

I tried force quitting iTunes once and now it's back to normal. Thanks!

By: neustile

neustile — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:36:11 -0800

for me this was a dashboard widget that kept opening itunes. check if you have anything there.

By: TochterAusElysium

TochterAusElysium — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:26:42 -0800

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.