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marka87uk

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May 22, 2011
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Since upgrading to Lion, iTunes keeps mysteriously opening by itself!

Any ideas on how to fix this issue? :confused:

I don't have any iTunes widgets, no iPod is plugged in (or ever has been), and the play button on the keyboard is not being pressed...
 
Randomly... At first I thought it might be me hitting the play button by accident or something, but nope I was just sitting here and it loaded up by itself again. It doesn't begin playing anything; it just opens and stays behind the other windows.
 
Go to Users & Groups under System Preferences.
There, select your account and switch to the "Login Item" tab.
Deselect iTunes, but not iTunes Helper.
 
A question first : Does it happen when you are in front of the mac or at other times too?

One problem i faced was with the ext speakers connected; My foot was hitting the connecting wire which was dangling, and that seemed to start itunes;
The ext mic or speaker wire if loose, does create this problem.

Other reports have been made with USB Hubs and other attachments;
 
Un-plug and replugging in your external speakers/headphones seem to work for me. iTunes has a weird tendency of opening randomly if the 3.5mm audio jack is disturbed in a certain way.
 
Cheers guys, actually that make sense as I just recently replaced the output cable to my amplifier for a splitter cable in order to use headphones too, so I guess that was the cause! :cool:
 
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