my iTunes is haunted
October 20, 2005 4:27 PM Subscribe
Why does my iTunes keep opening (unprovoked)?
I'm running the latest update of Tiger and just sitting here surfing the web. iTunes starts up every 90 seconds for no apparent reason. I cannot figure out how this could possibly be happening. Is there a ghost in my powerbook?
I'm running the latest update of Tiger and just sitting here surfing the web. iTunes starts up every 90 seconds for no apparent reason. I cannot figure out how this could possibly be happening. Is there a ghost in my powerbook?
It would have to be some kind of background process. An applescript that runs perdocially, perhaps. Check your startup items in System Preferences -> User Accounts.
posted by zerolives at 4:53 PM on October 20, 2005
posted by zerolives at 4:53 PM on October 20, 2005
If it's a virus, you're the first person to get it. There are no reports on MacFixIt of anything like that.
If you're surfing on something like MySpace where people embed tracks in their profiles, it's possible that that would kick iTunes into action over and over.
Do you have any iTunes plugins installed, like iScrobbler for use with last.fm? Some of them can be buggy and could conceivably launch the program when you don't want them to.
Do you have an iPod connected to your Mac? If your iPod was screwy and rebooting continuously while plugged it, it could possibly be trigger iTunes to launch over and over.
posted by bcwinters at 4:58 PM on October 20, 2005
If you're surfing on something like MySpace where people embed tracks in their profiles, it's possible that that would kick iTunes into action over and over.
Do you have any iTunes plugins installed, like iScrobbler for use with last.fm? Some of them can be buggy and could conceivably launch the program when you don't want them to.
Do you have an iPod connected to your Mac? If your iPod was screwy and rebooting continuously while plugged it, it could possibly be trigger iTunes to launch over and over.
posted by bcwinters at 4:58 PM on October 20, 2005
When all else fails, Fix Permissions.
When did this start? Things like this don't start happening on their own. What changed?
posted by mkultra at 5:07 PM on October 20, 2005
When did this start? Things like this don't start happening on their own. What changed?
posted by mkultra at 5:07 PM on October 20, 2005
Do you have Konfabulator and an iTunes "remote control" widget (or some other add-on that provides some kind of added functionality to iTunes)? It sounds like something somewhere is runinng an AppleScript that tries to talk to iTunes. When a script does this, the Mac obligingly launches the application being addressed so it can reply to the script. (Smart scripters put some kind of test in to make sure the application is actually running first.)
posted by kindall at 5:24 PM on October 20, 2005
posted by kindall at 5:24 PM on October 20, 2005
Response by poster: Nope, nope, nope and nope. It all started last night sometime after I decompressed a .rar file I downloaded via bittorrent. It ran fine, no problems. I then spent the rest of the night typing in Word, it kinda popped up when I wasn't paying attention. I noticed it this morning when my Safari was a bit sluggish. I quit iTunes (incase it was updating a podcast) and a short while later it opened back up. I just opened up my activity monitor, hopefully something will show up.
posted by jmgorman at 5:30 PM on October 20, 2005
posted by jmgorman at 5:30 PM on October 20, 2005
Response by poster: Figured it out. I had a stuck itunes widget in my dashboard. It said I was playing a song and wondered why iTunes wasn't actually open. It would open every few minutes as the dock cycled through its updates. Just closed it and all is fixed.
posted by jmgorman at 5:34 PM on October 20, 2005
posted by jmgorman at 5:34 PM on October 20, 2005
xTunes opens iTunes whenever I accidentally hit command+space. (Maybe this wouldn't be a problem for you; it was the default for both Spotlight and xTunes, and I changed Spotlight.)
posted by thejoshu at 6:10 PM on October 20, 2005
posted by thejoshu at 6:10 PM on October 20, 2005
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posted by jmgorman at 4:50 PM on October 20, 2005