Problems with Mac and itunes

[ghost hostess]

I'm not sure if this question has been answered already, but I've recently switched to a macbook pro and am trying to listen to subsonic through my itunes (I've never had a problem with this before on other computers). However, when I click on a stream to listen, it will "download" and then pull up under a "text edit" window and not even go through itunes. Any thoughts??

[Len90]

Okay so when you download the stream it will pop up as a listen-xx.pls in your little downloads window. Click on the stream so it is highlighted. Then "right click" it and select show in folder. Following this you can right click the stream in your downloads folder and select "open with" iTunes should be there as an option.

[ghost hostess]

Thank you so much!! it worked!!

[Len90]

Thank you so much!! it worked!!

Glad to hear it worked. You probably will not have to go through this anymore as it should directly launch in iTunes upon downloading.

[Satchel T]

That's interesting ... for myself when I click on the request link it automatically opens up itunes on my macbook pro but I would love for it to not do it by itself. I'd like to be the one that opens itunes as sometimes I click on it but would like to wait a few to actually start the stream. Any thoughts on how to get it to not automatically open itunes?

[Len90]

That's interesting ... for myself when I click on the request link it automatically opens up itunes on my macbook pro but I would love for it to not do it by itself. I'd like to be the one that opens itunes as sometimes I click on it but would like to wait a few to actually start the stream. Any thoughts on how to get it to not automatically open itunes?

I think you will have to do this:
In safari go to the top task bar and click safari. Then go to preferences. Once the box pops up click on the general tab. At the bottom you will see a check box that says to open safe files automatically after downloading. It will be checked but you can uncheck it. The issue with this is that EVERYTHING you download will then have to manually be opened up (including pdfs, documents, etc)

BTW: There might be another way to do this but this is the only way I am currently aware of.