how to stop communication with itunes on mac?

- jefman pisze...
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- 18 II 2012, 12:06
how to stop communication with itunes on mac?

i don't want last.fm client to communicate with my itunes on my mac, at all. how can i stop it? i don't just mean to turn off scrobbling, i already did that.

when i play a track in itunes, i don't want to see it pop up in last.fm client. i got rid of AudioScrobbler.bundle, but it's still communicating somehow. how can i prevent that? i really just don't want there to be any connection between my itunes and last.fm client at all.

it's a privacy thing. even if it's not being scrobbled, the client is still sending the name of every track i play in itunes, to last.fm servers, and i would rather not do that.

i also know i can quit last.fm before running itunes, but sometimes i forget. i just want to turn it off permanently. is it possible?

thanks...

[quote][b][user]jefman[/user][/b] pisze: i don't want last.fm client to communicate with my itunes on my mac, at all. how can i stop it? i don't just mean to turn off scrobbling, i already did that. when i play a track in itunes, i don't want to see it pop up in last.fm client. i got rid of AudioScrobbler.bundle, but it's still communicating somehow. how can i prevent that? i really just don't want there to be any connection between my itunes and last.fm client at all. it's a privacy thing. even if it's not being scrobbled, the client is still sending the name of every track i play in itunes, to last.fm servers, and i would rather not do that. i also know i can quit last.fm before running itunes, but sometimes i forget. i just want to turn it off permanently. is it possible? thanks...[/quote]

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- dankine pisze...
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- 18 II 2012, 13:11
why have the client installed at all then?

privacy lol

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[quote][b][user]dankine[/user][/b] pisze: why have the client installed at all then? privacy lol[/quote]

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- Babs_05 pisze...
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- 19 II 2012, 2:31
To completely uninstall the client, you need to clear residual files

The easiest way to do this is to open the Terminal app, and paste the following:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/fm.last.*

and

rm -rf ~/"Library/Application Support/Last.fm"

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[quote][b][user]Babs_05[/user][/b] pisze: To completely uninstall the client, you need to clear residual files The easiest way to do this is to open the Terminal app, and paste the following: rm ~/Library/Preferences/fm.last.* and rm -rf ~/"Library/Application Support/Last.fm"[/quote]

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- jefman pisze...
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- 19 II 2012, 19:58
i don't want to uninstall the client.

i have the client installed so i can listen to music on last.fm.

am i doing it wrong? how else should i listen to stations?

i just don't want the client to connect itself to my itunes, and watch everything i'm doing, and bring up band names and pop up growl notifications and everything, every time i play a track in itunes. really, is that too much to ask?

how can i block the client completely from communicating with my itunes while it's running?

[quote][b][user]jefman[/user][/b] pisze: i don't want to uninstall the client. i have the client installed so i can listen to music on last.fm. am i doing it wrong? how else should i listen to stations? i just don't want the client to connect itself to my itunes, and watch everything i'm doing, and bring up band names and pop up growl notifications and everything, every time i play a track in itunes. really, is that too much to ask? how can i block the client completely from communicating with my itunes while it's running?[/quote]

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- Babs_05 pisze...
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- 19 II 2012, 20:33
You could uninstall the plugin for iTunes.

You can also change growl notifications. See the Apple support forums for instructions if you're not sure how.

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[quote][b][user]Babs_05[/user][/b] pisze: You could uninstall the plugin for iTunes. You can also change growl notifications. See the Apple support forums for instructions if you're not sure how.[/quote]

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- jefman pisze...
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- 22 II 2012, 12:02
i have already uninstalled the plugin for iTunes.

that's the whole reason i'm posting here!

as i said in my original post, it doesn't help. even though i've permanently uninstalled the plugin, the client is still communicating with iTunes, and i can't figure out how, and i can't turn it off!

i removed "AudioScrobbler.bundle" from my itunes plugin folder. and, since it kept getting reinstalled every time the client started, i went in and removed it from the client application, as per instructions elsewhere on this forum.

so, the itunes plugin does not exist on my system. it's not in my itunes plugins folder, or the system itunes plugin folder, or inside the client application itself. yet, the client is still connecting itself to my itunes, and monitoring it somehow.

i would like to know how it is doing that, and how i can prevent it.

the growl notifications are only one of the problems. i want to have them when i play a track in last.fm, but i don't want to have them also when i play a track in itunes, since i already have another method for that. but it's not possible to change the settings for that to happen. the client makes no distinction between playing a track on last.fm, and playing a track in itunes, the notification is sent the same for either one. it's all or nothing.

as i said, that's only one of the problems. in general, i just don't want the last.fm client sticking its nose into my itunes, for several reasons.

i would really appreciate if someone could tell me how to prevent it from doing that!

[quote][b][user]jefman[/user][/b] pisze: i have already uninstalled the plugin for iTunes. that's the whole reason i'm posting here! as i said in my original post, it doesn't help. even though i've permanently uninstalled the plugin, the client is still communicating with iTunes, and i can't figure out how, and i can't turn it off! i removed "AudioScrobbler.bundle" from my itunes plugin folder. and, since it kept getting reinstalled every time the client started, i went in and removed it from the client application, as per instructions elsewhere on this forum. so, the itunes plugin does not exist on my system. it's not in my itunes plugins folder, or the system itunes plugin folder, or inside the client application itself. yet, the client is still connecting itself to my itunes, and monitoring it somehow. i would like to know how it is doing that, and how i can prevent it. the growl notifications are only one of the problems. i want to have them when i play a track in last.fm, but i don't want to have them also when i play a track in itunes, since i already have another method for that. but it's not possible to change the settings for that to happen. the client makes no distinction between playing a track on last.fm, and playing a track in itunes, the notification is sent the same for either one. it's all or nothing. as i said, that's only one of the problems. in general, i just don't want the last.fm client sticking its nose into my itunes, for several reasons. i would really appreciate if someone could tell me how to prevent it from doing that! [/quote]

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- jefman pisze...
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- 29 III 2012, 21:16
trying again - is there really no way to do this? uninstalling the iTunes plugin does *not* stop the last.fm client from monitoring my itunes activities and uploading them to the last.fm servers...

anyone???

[quote][b][user]jefman[/user][/b] pisze: trying again - is there really no way to do this? uninstalling the iTunes plugin does *not* stop the last.fm client from monitoring my itunes activities and uploading them to the last.fm servers... anyone???[/quote]

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- Babs_05 pisze...
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- 29 III 2012, 22:57
If you're only using the client to listen to Last.fm radios, you can do that via the web radio (Radio tab in the bar up top ^^)

Sounds like if you completely uninstalled the client, that would be your problem solved.

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[quote][b][user]Babs_05[/user][/b] pisze: If you're only using the client to listen to Last.fm radios, you can do that via the [url=http://www.last.fm/listen]web radio[/url] (Radio tab in the bar up top ^^) Sounds like if you completely uninstalled the client, that would be your problem solved. [/quote]

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- jefman pisze...
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- 3 IV 2012, 15:06
thanks for your efforts to help, but as i said the last time, i don't want to uninstall the client. that doesn't solve my problem at all. i like the client and i want to use it. i just want to know how to block it from monitoring my itunes. surely there is some way to do that?

[quote][b][user]jefman[/user][/b] pisze: thanks for your efforts to help, but as i said the last time, i don't want to uninstall the client. that doesn't solve my problem at all. i like the client and i want to use it. i just want to know how to block it from monitoring my itunes. surely there is some way to do that?[/quote]

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- dankine pisze...
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- 3 IV 2012, 15:37
as long as the plugin isn't installed it shouldn't be talking to itunes. just getting itunes myself to make sure.

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[quote][b][user]dankine[/user][/b] pisze: as long as the plugin isn't installed it shouldn't be talking to itunes. just getting itunes myself to make sure.[/quote]

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- jefman pisze...
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- 3 IV 2012, 17:13
you'd think. my "/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins" and "~/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins" folders are both empty. the plug-in has been removed from the application bundle so it can't be reinstalled. still, every track played in iTunes causes the last.fm client to connect to the server and display the information for that song, as well as issue a growl notification. I have scrobbling disabled in the preferences, so it doesn't scrobble. but it still tracks all my... tracks.

so unless I missed something, it's communicating through some other channel than the plug-in, apple events I guess, but I don't know how to block that. perhaps it just isn't possible.

[quote][b][user]jefman[/user][/b] pisze: you'd think. my "/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins" and "~/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins" folders are both empty. the plug-in has been removed from the application bundle so it can't be reinstalled. still, every track played in iTunes causes the last.fm client to connect to the server and display the information for that song, as well as issue a growl notification. I have scrobbling disabled in the preferences, so it doesn't scrobble. but it still tracks all my... tracks. so unless I missed something, it's communicating through some other channel than the plug-in, apple events I guess, but I don't know how to block that. perhaps it just isn't possible.[/quote]

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- dankine pisze...
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- 3 IV 2012, 19:18
doesn't do it for me :/

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[quote][b][user]dankine[/user][/b] pisze: doesn't do it for me :/[/quote]

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- jefman pisze...
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- 12 IV 2012, 15:07
are you saying you have a mac, and you have the official last.fm client open and running, and it doesn't mirror the tracks you play in itunes?

did it do it at first, and then you uninstalled the itunes plugin, and then it stopped? if so, how did you uninstall the plugin? if not... what happened?

it would be interesting to know, if it's actually possible. i've tried everything i can think of, with no success.

[quote][b][user]jefman[/user][/b] pisze: are you saying you have a mac, and you have the official last.fm client open and running, and it doesn't mirror the tracks you play in itunes? did it do it at first, and then you uninstalled the itunes plugin, and then it stopped? if so, how did you uninstall the plugin? if not... what happened? it would be interesting to know, if it's actually possible. i've tried everything i can think of, with no success.[/quote]

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