Random music playing???

brandon639brandon639
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Okay. I have had this really weird problem for a week or so:



Random music, some metal or something weird. I dont even listen to that! So I know its not on my computer, or put there by me. And it randomly starts playing... I close out of everything, even Finder, and it continues... The only way to kill it is to log out and back in....



Any help?

Virus?

Spyware?

Something else?

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    sschuebelsschuebel Posts: 2member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Brandon639 View Post


    Okay. I have had this really weird problem for a week or so:



    Random music, some metal or something weird. I dont even listen to that! So I know its not on my computer, or put there by me. And it randomly starts playing... I close out of everything, even Finder, and it continues... The only way to kill it is to log out and back in....



    Any help?

    Virus?

    Spyware?

    Something else?





    This is a longshot, but a while back I was messing with widgets and I got a little flash thing in there that played music, so I deleted it and it was gone - but yeah before that random startups. So make sure its not a widget in the background.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    brandon639brandon639 Posts: 34member
    Well you know, I think it may be some widget that does it. it seems to happen when I open dashboard.... *starts hunting for odd widgets*
  • Reply 3 of 5
    nizzlenizzle Posts: 1member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Brandon639 View Post


    Well you know, I think it may be some widget that does it. it seems to happen when I open dashboard.... *starts hunting for odd widgets*



    what do you guys mean "widget" ??? I am getting the same thing on my laptop. But it started on my work computer seems like after I built a playlist on playlist.com



    I dunno. It's freakin me out. Now it plays s snippet of jay z



    at work it does that or a whistle randomly every few hours
  • Reply 4 of 5
    jupiteronejupiterone Posts: 1,564member
    Dashboard widget. Hit F12 (I think), or got to Applications >> Dashboard.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    leviticusleviticus Posts: 18member
    What I would do is look for any processes that might be running. Go ahead and check that and see if there are any odd processes running. If you find a process that seems like it doesn't belong in the list, go ahead and close that process. Get back to us if the problem continues.
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