ITunes starting, unprompted
Re: iTunes starting automatically--I'm using earbuds from my Blackberry Torch, and found that if I have the earbuds switch in the "on" position, then iTunes keeps opening. If I switch it off, then iTunes stays off. I don't have any external devices synced, and in iTunes, I have the automatic sync option in the preferences turned off, so I think it is the headphones port with the ear buds that is causing the problem. (For those who have not yet resolved the problem of iTunes starting, consider whether this could be your problem.)
Thank you!
My Mac Mini runs iTunes all the time, so the Apple TV's in the LAN can play music stored on the Mini. Normally, I don't play music directly from iTunes on the Mini, but many times I have logged in to the Mini only to find music playing when it should not be. I pause the music, and then sometime later it starts playing again on the Mini, seemingly all by itself. This has been going on for some time, and a real puzzle. I've tried various remedies, including making an empty playlist and opening it on the Mini in iTunes. Nothing I tried had worked, so I just turned the iTunes volume completely down, and lived with this "ghost in the machine."
It so happens my Mini lives in a media closet where one of the ATV's also lives (on the same shelf). My devices in the media closet are controlled via infrared transmitters inside the closet which, in turn, are controlled by RF via the Logitech Harmony 900 in another room.
It never occurred to me that the infrared signals sent to the ATV were also being picked up by the IR receiver in the Mac Mini (which I never realized existed and was turned on by default). I disabled the IR receiver on the Mini, and hallelujah! No more iTunes music mysteriously playing on the Mini itself inside the media closet!
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ibook Mac OS X (10.4.7) japanese OSI see that you "answered it", but here are a few tips for those who may be reading:
First: Check your login items! Open System Preferences (Applications folder), the click on accounts. Select your user account on the left, and click the "Login Items" tab. Whatever you see there will open upon boot, or more specifically, login to your account. You SHOULD see an item called "iTunes Helper", but make sure that "iTunes", the application, is not listed. If it is, select it, and click the "-" button below. You may need admin authentication (password), to remove login items.
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You'll need to repeat this for every different iPod you attach to this machine, or if you restore your iPod.
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If none of these work, you should try the age-old recomendations of verifying and repairing permissions (using Disk Utility: /Applications/Utilities), or zapping the PRAM. (Search Apple's support site using PRAM and your Mac model). If those don't succede, I bow to someone of greater knowledge.
I hope this may be of assitance to someone,
-Dan
15" 1.67 Powerbook G4 (Jan 2005), 400 mhz AGP Sawtooth G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4G Clickwheel and 5G Vid iPods -
Hey, my itunes started crashing. no idea why
so as the title says, it crashes
it shows a windows error report like 5 seconds after itunes starts and it shuts down
also if i have my ipod plugged when i start it it also shows n error report for the sync program and 1 more thing...
anyways... i tried repairing itunes from the program control panel
i tried removing itunes and then reinstalling it
i tried removing and installing an older version (10.3) after deleting the itunes itl library files
heck, i tried deleting all of the itunes libraries and i even deleted all my apps (after backuping them ofc) and itunes still crashes 5sec after it opens
i am using windows xp sp2 and i just dont have a clue about what happened... it just started yesturday
please help!so as the title says, it crashes
it shows a windows error report like 5 seconds after itunes starts and it shuts down
also if i have my ipod plugged when i start it it also shows n error report for the sync program and 1 more thing...
anyways... i tried repairing itunes from the program control panel
i tried removing itunes and then reinstalling it
i tried removing and installing an older version (10.3) after deleting the itunes itl library files
heck, i tried deleting all of the itunes libraries and i even deleted all my apps (after backuping them ofc) and itunes still crashes 5sec after it opens
i am using windows xp sp2 and i just dont have a clue about what happened... it just started yesturday
please help!
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