There's a system preference to stop iTunes from starting up when you insert a CD into the drive, but there appears to be no preference to stop a running iTunes from immediately switching to the new CD. It's beyond annoying when iTunes pops away from wherever you were in iTunes to visit the new CD. You then have to waste time clicking back to wherever you were before.
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Make iTunes ignore a newly-inserted CD?
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Nope, that's not it. That pref makes the system ignore disks (so it won't launch iTunes). It doesn't command a running iTunes app to ignore disks.
Yes, but that's inapplicable. While I can tell OSX to ignore the disk, I can't tell iTunes to ignore the disk. Try it yourself. Run iTunes. Insert disk. Watch iTunes attempt to display it no matter what you do.
In the iTunes preferences, you can tell iTunes to
display
play
import
import and eject
every disc you insert. There's no possibility to ignore the disc indeed.
But how about waiting to insert the disc untill you want it to be displayed.
display
play
import
import and eject
every disc you insert. There's no possibility to ignore the disc indeed.
But how about waiting to insert the disc untill you want it to be displayed.