iTunes Randomly Launches Itself
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.
LOL!
Benjamin Franklin might amend his definition if he was alive today in the world of computers. ;-D
Life saver of a post! Was happening to me too.
Another person who found this post after googling “itunes relaunches itself”. Thanks!
This was happening to me, too.
Yet another grateful victim of the ghost of iTunes!
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.
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.
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
Heeellllpp!
Sam problem with mysterious opening of iTunes.
I disabled and trashed the iTunes widget, rebooted… BUT IT’S STILL HAPPENING.
ANY IDEAS?… ANYONE?
I have the same iTunes problem. But after tossing the widget, IT’S STILL HAPPENING. Appears I’m the only one. Can anyone help??
For me the culprit is SqueezeCenter, I had it set to “Use iTunes” so it kept relaunching iTunes if I quit it.
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