Intel Mac :: It Randomly Plays Music?
May 3, 2012
My iMac sometimes will just randomly start playing music. This just recently started and I haven't made any hardware/software changes at all, last thing I did was update it for printer drivers and that was it. It usually plays at night when I'm sleeping and it starts with the song that's on the top of the list. I've restarted it and everything and can't figure it out. I always leave iTunes running because I have my iPad and iPhones set up for wireless syncing. So I usually just keep the sound off to prevent any random music playing. Oh and there is no remotes connected to it either....
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iMac 21.5, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Sep 7, 2014
My imac is only 3 months old and has started slowing down, randomly playing music when connected to iTunes, spinning colour wheel takes she's to laid anything.
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Jun 3, 2012
I have a Macbook about 2 years old. I was running 10.7.3. Today it started to play random music I've never heard quietly in the background even if I turned it off and upplugged everything. A buddy said to update to 10.7.4 to fix the "bug". I did and the music stopped about a 1/2 hour. Then started up again. Â
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MacBook
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Aug 7, 2009
I've been a mac user for about 5 years and have worked with them pretty extensively so i'm not a newbie, but I have been having the craziest issue i've ever come across on a mac start about a week ago with my very own and here it is:
Like it says above I'm using a 2.4GHz macbook with 2Gb of RAM bought in 2007. Starting about 2 weeks ago, I find that when i'm using speakers or headphones (ie: NOT the in-built speakers) that there is faint techno music playing the background. I do like techno music but it's no song that I recognize from my library, and it seems to be about a 10 second loop. It was first one song, then i restarted my computer and it was ok for about a week and now it's back with a DIFFERENT loop (still electronic?) Has anyone ever come across anything like this before? It has nothing to do with the volume of the speakers/headphones. They still go loud and I can still hear what i'm actually watching/listening to just fine, but then there's this techno off in the distance. OR if i'm not listening/watching anything and turn the volume up all the way on either the speakers or headphones i'm able to hear the music relatively clearly but it still sounds muddled and far off. Any advice would be awesome.
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Jun 8, 2012
When a video track begins, the iTunes window comes up, even if I've got iTunes hidden. (Note: it doesn't bring the iTunes application to the foreground; it just shows the iTunes window behind my current window.)Â
Clearly, this is not the behavior I want when it's _hidden_! ...But I can't find any way to stop this behavior
P.S. This is iTunes version 10.6.1(7) on OS 10.7.4. Also, I'm running SizzlingKeys 3.3.5, if that matters (there doesn't seem to be a preference in this app to control window behavior...).
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Oct 6, 2008
simple question, i hope its a simple answer....
when i download a music file from an internet page (safari) it automatically opens itunes and plays, i want this to stop...
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Oct 26, 2010
So basically I'm sat here pretty chuffed with my self after putting together a nice Spotify playlist, and iTunes keep randomly playing music? I've shut it down and stuff, but it literally opens and plays random music tracks.
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Jun 6, 2012
Sometimes one song in the middle of a cd is missing, and sometimes a single just disappears. The weird thing is that the name and albumcover is still there, but the music file is not. The original file in the music library is gone, and a lot of it is music i bought in itunes.Â
Also, i keep getting less and less space on my harddrive. It's like it's automatically filling up, allthough I'm not filling it with anything. Â
Could it be the solid state drive that's dying?Â
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Mac OS X (10.6.8), MacBook air
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Dec 4, 2014
I have noticed that iTunes has deleted a random selection of music from my library. There is a useful little exclamation mark next to the track it has removed the data of. I have used spotlight to search to try to find the missing file, but without fail it opens my college notes from ten years ago. That's interesting. I suppose it is gone for good and I have to buy it again, preferably from the i-apple-store??
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 3.06GHz Intel Core Duo; 8GB 1067 MH
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Apr 30, 2012
I recently bought a used 2009 iMac. I erased the disc and started fresh. If I do not shut the computer down every night, right around midnight, the computer plays 5 or 6 beeps (kind of a little song of beeps). It's always the same sound. I've poked around System Preferences and do not see any alarms set in there. I have also made sure that iCal does not have any alarms set up to play at midnight.
A little more info about the iMac. It pretty much has nothing on it. I added Microsoft Office and that is it. I bought it so I can move some of my music over and get myself under 25,000 songs on my main computer (so I can use iTunes Match). Other than Microsoft Office I have not added any other programs onto the computer.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Sep 20, 2010
I don't know why, but iTunes entirely too often on my computer. I use a 15" MBP running 10.6.4 (The latest version of SL). I'm using iTunes 10, but I was having this issue prior to the update. It crashes seemingly randomly sometimes when I finish an album, sometimes between songs, and sometimes just mid-song. Restarting seemed to help once, but it eventually started crashing again, and all subsequent reboots have had no effect. I have about 21 GB of music, mostly pirated (though let's not get into that debate); I listen to music by the album. My library is completely music (no TV shows, podcasts, etc.). Am I the only one sending them 20 enraged error messages a day?
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Sep 5, 2008
For the past few days, my i-mac (10.4.11) has been playing music randomly. I'm not sure what the cause is, but I assumed it could be limewire, so I deleted it. I'm currently using Macscan to look for spyware, but no spyware files have been detected. I know what program it plays through-- Safari. and as far as I can tell it always plays my ITunes songs.
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Sep 4, 2014
My mid-2014 15" Macbook Pro randomly "loses" its retina display at the top menu (becomes pixel-y), where the battery, sound, and wifi logos are (on the top right side of the screen). A restart fixes the issue, but I want to know if this is an issue that can be fixed?Â
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MacBook Pro with Retina display
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Mar 1, 2012
I have a 2006 IMac that works perfectly except for one thing. One day last year out of the blue the sound stopped working and I would get the 'not allowed' circle when I tried to adjust the volume. the problem persisted for a week or so, then the sound just came back on. Everything was fine untill a month ago when the same thing happened. I did some research and tried the toothpick trick and everything related but nothing worked, then the next morning the sound was on. Over the next few weeks the sound would go on and off randomly for no apparent reason. It has now been off for two solid weeks and I don't know what to do. Is it possibly a loose connection inside the computer that just needs to be plugged in?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 16, 2012
My NEW iMac keeps freezing randomly.
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May 18, 2012
IMac 20" intel core duo, 2G running leopard 10.5.8. Mac will turn off randomly and won't start again unless its left for a while, it's no getting hot (that I can detect). So far I have reset the SMC, run the AHT which came up with nothing, tried another power lead, tried it in different power outlets.
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Feb 3, 2012
My iMac randomly freezes and crashes on me. Most of the freezes occur when scrolling with my trackpad on websites with Google Chrome. I get the pinwheel and have to use the power button to turn off and on the iMac. I haven't noticed any particular connection to Flash websites or video related sites. It just seems kind of random. I've also been careful to have absolutely nothing else running and it still does not prevent it. Â
Also, from time to time the iMac will crash and go to a solid color screen. Either Blue-Gray, White or Black. It seems to be random colors. When this happens, I have to use the power button to cycle it off and back on again.Â
Some info about my iMac: Model Identifier: iMac7,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2 GHz Mac OSX 10.6.8Â
What could be causing this or how can I diagnose the problem? I can give more info if needed.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Feb 4, 2012
my screen is just randomly going dark. its not shuting down - just seems to go to sleep but nothing I do wakes it short of turning the power button off then on. When I do that it quickly comes on again and seems to work fine. Seems to be happening with more and more frequency and is not particular to any software. I've read the boards here - I'm not a gamer ( no games on this computer) I'm a photographer with lots of files and I use photoshop alot. Yesterday I was on you tube and my screen went dark again but the video was still playing - I could still hear it. In fact, I could hit my mouse to stop and start the video but I couldn't see anything. Hardware Overview:  Model Name:         iMac Model Identifier:         iMac11,1 Processor Name:         Intel Core i7 Processor Speed:         2.8 GHz Number Of Processors:         1 Total Number Of Cores:         4 L2 Cache (per core):         256 KB L3 Cache:         8 MB Memory:         8 GB Processor Interconnect Speed:         4.8 GT/s Boot ROM Version:         IM111.0034.B02 SMC Version (system):         1.54f36
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), about a year old
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Feb 23, 2012
my wifi randomly turns off on my IMac. I have 10.7.3 installed
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 7, 2012
my screen keeps going black randomly but everything in the background is still playing. When i press the power button twice it will go to standby and then turns on again, but the black screen keeps getting more and more frequent. Ive tried resetting the SMC and the command+option + PR thing but nothing has worked.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 11, 2012
I am running 2x2GB memory with 2.7ghz intel core i5 and lion 10.7.3. Â Just wanted to know what it is crashing
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 13, 2012
I get a grey-white vertical lines screen. Happens a lot when playing flash games online. Updated flash player already.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 10, 2012
Why does my mouse randomly skip or freeze?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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Mar 20, 2012
My Imac---which is less than a year old--randomly goes black but continues to function otherwise. This is happening on a more and more frequent basis.Â
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iMac
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Apr 23, 2012
I'm having huge issues with my 20-inch early 2008 iMac running 10.7.3. I upgraded my RAM (to 4Gb) 8 months ago and everything was running nice and easy until I upgraded to Lion. Either one of these things happen:Â My screen goes entirely grey or blue with white faded thin vertical stripes at random timesMac freezes working with any Adobe applications (mouse cursor still works but I can't click anything until I turn off and on)Mac freezes for a while and after a 30-second delay clicking and pressing buttons frantically everything goes back to normalÂ
The strangest thing is that when I play Sims 3 for example (a beast of RAM and video drainer) nothing happens. I tried almost everything from repairing permissions to re-install my memory modules. I couldn't run the hardware test.Â
Note: I live in Brazil so sending my machine to a Genius Bar is completely off the question.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 20 inch (early 2008), Core 2 Duo
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Apr 28, 2012
Only a laserprinter is connected. Sometimes I can work for a few weeks without problem, but then the computer freezes. The computer sounds 3 monotone chimes in a row and repeats this, keyboard an mouse become inactive till I do a hard shutdown.Took the computer 2 times to the Apple store, they tested for a week but apparently nothing happened then.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Aug 30, 2014
I have had this for the last few days, so I don't really know what's going on...Â
Anonymous UUID:Â Â Â Â Â Â D4B5793A-92CF-4E5D-33F8-94D77B084C5CÂ Â
Sun Aug 31 00:07:39 2014
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8002c5220d): "zalloc: zone map exhausted while allocating from zone kalloc.8192, likely due to memory leak in zone kalloc.64 (1440851328 total bytes, 22513266 elements allocated)"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2422.100.13/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:2494
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81348c3c70 : 0xffffff8002c22fa9
[Code].....
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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Jun 2, 2014
I have a 27" iMac. Just recently, the screen has begun to randomly shut off. I then have to squeeze the power button, followed by a click of the mouse. This will bring me back to my password screen. Sometimes, that would be it, other times, it will do it repeatedly, for no reason, and then settle down.Â
Just for those of you who are bound to ask me about my Energy saving settings: Computer to sleep – Never. Display to sleep – 15 min.Â
It seems to me that this could be a hardware issue, but just incase any of you have had any experience of something similar, I thought I would ask.Â
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), 27: iMac 2.7GHz Core i5
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Dec 7, 2014
I recently had to reformat my iMac because it was restarting constantly and it kept freezing too. After a reformat, I installed a few programs. Skype, Microsoft Office 2010, VLC, Plex Home Theatre, Plex Media Server, an uTorrent.Â
My computer restarted randomly again, twice :-( I included the crash report below if it is useful.Â
Anonymous UUID:Â Â Â Â Â Â D5BFA84C-1ECE-3EC9-ED1F-6392EF1A3BB8Â Â
Mon Dec 8 02:13:49 2014 Â
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80040e8887): "complete() while dma active"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2782.1.97/iokit/Kernel/IOMemoryDescriptor.cpp:3307
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
[code].....
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iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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Dec 4, 2014
I set the screensaver to a folder on main drive. All files are jpg. it works for a while then after a few times - exit the screensaver then back to the screensaver - it will go to the default settings.
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
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