Feb 26
Poking along, I close iTunes. Not more than one minute later, it relaunches itself.
“Hmm,” I mumble. I close iTunes again. Again, it relaunches itself.
Benjamin Franklin defined insanity as the repitition of acts without variation in expectation of different results. I am certifiable: I close her a third time; to my shock, iTunes relaunches a third time.
It turns out, running the Apple iTunes Controller widget will sometimes result in this behavior. I disabled the iTunes widget, closed iTunes, and the beast did not relaunch itself. There was much rejoicing.
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February 26th, 2007 at 10:46 am
LOL!
Benjamin Franklin might amend his definition if he was alive today in the world of computers. ;-D
September 5th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Life saver of a post! Was happening to me too.
November 9th, 2007 at 3:15 am
Another person who found this post after googling “itunes relaunches itself”. Thanks!
November 16th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
This was happening to me, too.
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Yet another grateful victim of the ghost of iTunes!
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
This problem is far more widespread than I had anticipated. I’ll have to test it in Leopard to see if it is still unresolved.
I can understand launching iTunes if a button on the widget is pressed, but just random launching is ridiculous.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:04 am
I had been thinking it had something to do with the latest Tiger Security Update, but going by the date of the original post, not. But getting rid of the controller widget solved the problem.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Hi, I don’t have the widget installed and still facing the same problem !
Don’t know what to do. I’m not sure but think that I have to empty the PRAM to resolve it.
Really boring, grrrr
May 27th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Heeellllpp!
Sam problem with mysterious opening of iTunes.
I disabled and trashed the iTunes widget, rebooted… BUT IT’S STILL HAPPENING.
ANY IDEAS?… ANYONE?
May 27th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I have the same iTunes problem. But after tossing the widget, IT’S STILL HAPPENING. Appears I’m the only one. Can anyone help??
August 11th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
For me the culprit is SqueezeCenter, I had it set to “Use iTunes” so it kept relaunching iTunes if I quit it.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I have a little program called I Love Stars installed. It’s a nice litle program (puts song stars in the menu), but it is I believe what is causing iTunes to relaunch.
Tony