Music with dashboard. How do I stop it?

Music suddenly starts on my Mac and I traced it to Dashboard. When I open Dashboard and then close it the music stops but then will start again within one or two minutes.
My software is OXS version 10.8.4 and I want to permently eliminate this constant bother.

Back up all data.
In the Finder, hold down the option key and select
Go ▹ Library
from the menu bar. From the Library folder, move the following item to the Trash, if it exists:
Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client
and move the following items to the Desktop:
Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.client.plist
Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.plist
Log out, log back in, and test. If you still have the issue, put the items on the Desktop back where they came from and post again. Otherwise, delete the items.

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