ITunes reopens automatically after quiting

This problem has been happening through the last few updates. I quit (or even force quit) iTunes, and it reopens automatically. It's a real problem now because it's actually preventing me from shutting down my Mac. I have no programs running with it except for TuneUp, but iTunes will automatically restart even with TuneUp disabled. Please help me.

I have the same problem over here, it is really annoying because i cant even shut down my mac,
i had to force shutdown on the button twice, because of this problem.
Does anyone else has this problem ?

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ITunes reopening itself after I closed it.

I clicked the red X button to exit iTunes, but after a few seconds, itunes will automatically reopen itself once again.
Any help to solve this issue will be appreciated =D
EDIT: Just tried ending the itunes*32.exe process.. it managed to solve the issue. but are there other easier methods to solve this ?
Message was edited by: NonErIEN
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is your ipod connected? if it is, i noticed it will reopen non stop for me. other reasons ive found for reopening are things like the dell dock or object dock. basically any program that uses itunes can make it open randomly. its pretty lame. just look at everything that uses it and eliminate them one by one till you find it. (i disconnected my printer and it worked...no i dea how that has anything to do with itunes but you know what whatever works lol)

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If you're sure it's not your browsers, then most likely you have accessed iTunes' preferences and clicked the Set button for "Use iTunes for Internet music playback" (iTunes > Preferences > Advanced) at some point.
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App launches automatically after quit or launches automatically by itself

I'm using Leopard and getting some strange behaviour with some apps.
1) After I quit some apps they open again automatically.
2) If a open an app, a new instance of it will open automatically after a few seconds.
Looking at this new instance, its launchd that opened it.
I never got this kind of behaviour with Tiger, what could be causing this?
And how do I fix it?
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Then, I'm stumped since none of those should be launched by the launchd process, which normally only launches system background processes. Check Accounts->login items for spurious items.

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I'm running the most recent update for Apple that is available, Mavericks. iTunes is 11.2.1.
After I've been using my Macbook Air for a little while, iTunes gets weird- it won't let me turn the volume up past like 30%, and when I try to quit it (and command-option-escape) it reopens right away.
I have no idea what to do.
If I restart my computer the problem goes away for a while, but it's always back.
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Thanks.

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hello,
i have 2 playlists in itunes. i would like to do the following:
1) itunes plays the first playlist by playing the songs in a random order and continues to do this, until
2) after a certain time (say 30 minutes), itunes switches to the second playlist and plays these songs in a random order and continues to do this for another 30 minutes.
now, for the randomization, i could use shuffle with repeat, but the problem with that is that after all songs are played in the playlist, the exact order repeats again. i don't want this. i want itunes to choose a random song from the playlist each time, even if it is the same one twice in a row. as i understand it, the itunes dj allows this possibility.
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In my first script : if the user press the "Camcel" button in the dialogue, the script will give an error.
Here is the corrected script.
global tPlaylists, DJ_Playlist, tIndex, firstTime
property durationTime : 1800 --seconds, equal 30 minutes
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        set item i of tnames to "" & i & " - " & item i of tnames
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don't no wether it's my new MacBook or iTunes 10, but every time I download a music file from the internet it automatically opens, and starts playing, in iTunes.
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Its not Itunes, its Safari. It has a setting for "automatically open safe files" after download. So it opens them in itunes. If you disable that setting, you should be fine.

ITunes reopens itself after closing

Greetings,
Since version 5 I and many others whom I know cannot close iTunes. It closes then immediately re-opens itself. Even using Task Manager to close it, it simply re-opens itself again, and in the end the only way to close iTunes is to re-boot the computer.
I have sent Apple about 50 emails with regard to this problem, as have many other people I know, but none of us has ever received a reply.
I believe this is a common problem.
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I have disabled all my security software and the problem persists.
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PROBLEM RESOLVED!
Here is what I did and it has fixed the issue of iTunes continually re-opening itself after closing with reference to DCOM and embedding.
I disabled DrWatson by editing the following registry key from 1 to 0:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug = 0
I disabled DCOM by editing the following registry key from Y to N:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OLE\EnableDCOM = N
Then I restarted the computer.
Then, using Control Panel, I removed iTunes and restarted.
Then I went to C:\Programs and deleted EVERY folder relating to iTunes and iPod. If a folder refuses to be deleted, open Task Manager and terminate the relevant iPod process then it will be possible to delete the folder.
I then cleared my Prefetch folder, temp folder, and then recycle bin.
I restarted the computer, and re-installed iTunes.
PROBLEM RESOLVED
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ITunes re-opens after quitting

Hi,
Well, the title says it all really. Lately, when I quit iTunes it re-opens, then when I quit it again it's fine.
Anybody had this problem before? What can I do to fix it?
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iLee

Hi
After reading a few other posts that mentioned widgets, I've finally tracked this problem down to a widget I recently installed. Last week I installed two lyric finder widgets, Harmonic and iglyric, plus an artwork finder called amazon art.
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ITunes 7 automatically relaunches after quit.

I have the same problem on both my intel mac mini and my MacBook Pro. The problem is worse on my mini as iTunes can hardly stay closed for 30 seconds and usually will relaunch immediately after quitting. The MacBook Pro tends to wait about 3-5 minutes after I quit to decide and launch iTunes - especially when I'm trying to play a game or anything else full screen, this is extremely annoying as it takes the full screen item, puts it in a window, and forces the machine's focus to iTunes.
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iTunes related Widgets can cause these problems.
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M

Itunes reopens after quit

Hello, brand new on the forum/discussions. It is really annoying whenever I quit iTunes, it automatically opens itself again. I then wait, quit it again and then goes away. Not really demanding answers, but wanted to let the main guys know about this and to see if anyone had any suggestions.
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-bpsmith

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Maybe Mail's message index is corrupt. The following procedure is safe to try. Its only deleterious effect is that windows you left open in Mail at step 1 won't reopen automatically in step 4.
1. Quit Mail.
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3. Move "Envelope Index" to your desktop.
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Be sure your mail folders are there and have their messages. They always are there, but the prudent check anyway.
Be sure you can send and receive mail. This always works, too.
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If Mail doesn't crash for a week or two, you probably fixed the problem. If not, you at least freed up some disk space.
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Hello davewood26,
The following article provides steps that can help get iTunes stabilized.
iTunes for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8: Fix unexpected quits or launch issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1717
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