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I have started having a very weird problem with my macbook. I keep getting a 3-4 minute background music on my macbook and it starts playing again once it ends. Earlier it used to stop only when I restarted my macbook but now even after restarting the music starts within 10-15 minutes.
I did not have any application running except 'Finder' which I even tried to relaunch but it dint help.
No forums or discussions have any mention of such problems, which makes it a very difficult problem to sort out.

I am attaching a recording of the music along. Please note, I do not have this music on my computer as a song in itunes or anywhere else. (It 'might' have come from some website I opened)

Please help me out.

Thanks

Kunal

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It could be in your start-up items in Accounts preferences

or it could be set as an alert sound in System preferences > Sound
 
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what is your sound effects file called in the sounds preferences
 

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Is Safari or any other web browser open when you hear the music?
 
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@louishen: which sound file are u talking about?

System preferences> System> Accounts
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System preferences> Hardware> Sound

@dtravis7: No app is open except 'Finder', I've tried to Relaunch finder also but it doesn't help.
 
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Sounds like a game soundtrack to me... have you got any games set to launch at startup?
 
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hey guys...
I've found the cause of the music. It's pretty embarrassing to announce it in public but I don't know anyone here so here it goes:

it was a "WIDGET"

it dint have any on/off button for the music. how it started on its own and earlier it started after 2-3 hours of usage and now after 30-40 minutes is still not solved but I am happy it's gone.

I can start the movie again.

thx for the time guys.
 
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Background music

Please help! I can't get rid of the background music that plays a loop of one song. Have no idea how it happened. Have to turn my speakers on mute so I won't hear it. When speakers are on it's playing & if I try to play something else, both play competeing with each other so I know can't enjoy pandora, Itunes, etc cause background music is always there.
 

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What programs are open when this happens? Try closing programs one at a time until it stops. This will let us know which program to target. My initial bet would be there is a browser window hidden somewhere.
 
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random music playing automatically

I have started having a very weird problem with my macbook. I keep getting a 3-4 minute background music on my macbook and it starts playing again once it ends. Earlier it used to stop only when I restarted my macbook but now even after restarting the music starts within 10-15 minutes.
I did not have any application running except 'Finder' which I even tried to relaunch but it dint help.
No forums or discussions have any mention of such problems, which makes it a very difficult problem to sort out.

I am attaching a recording of the music along. Please note, I do not have this music on my computer as a song in itunes or anywhere else. (It 'might' have come from some website I opened)

Please help me out.

Thanks

Kunal

Just had this same problem for the past few weeks, finally found it, went to apple icon and clicked force quit button and the active sites came up. Didn't realise but had spotify running. Fixed.
Hope this helps others Cheers Jules.
 

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Thanks for posting that. When I responded to this thread in February Spotify never occurred to me.
 
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Thanks for posting that. When I responded to this thread in February Spotify never occurred to me.

Sly - that was just over 4 years ago! :Cool: When did Spotify start? BUT, despite the 'age' of this thread, I usually get these 'background' audio interruptions when some 'opened' page in my browser starts playing a video making me click through multiple pages to see what I need to turn off! Annoying - Dave :)
 

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I didn't even think to look at the date of the original thread. Hopefully by now the OP has resolved this issue.

Like you when I get these it it usually the result of some site playing video automatically in the background. Macworld are you listening. Stop it!
 

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When you've opened a web page (yes, such as Macworld!) and you get a video or music accompaniment, you can mute all pages by clicking on the tiny sound icon which appears, in blue I think, in the Browser window, far right.

Ian
 

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When you've opened a web page (yes, such as Macworld!) and you get a video or music accompaniment, you can mute all pages by clicking on the tiny sound icon which appears, in blue I think, in the Browser window, far right.

Ian
Thanks. Not sure if I didn't know that or had forgotten it. Don't think I've ever noticed that before.


I might have mentioned that in one of the Sunday chat show tips segments but it is getting harder to remember which tips I've covered.
 

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