Want to use VLC or other superior media apps that respond to keyboard media keys (play/pause, etc) and iTunes keeps getting in the way? Run iTunes.sh to disable normal launching of iTunes. Then this script becomes how you launch iTunes if you need to for some god-forsaken reason. (The sleep helps prevent the rename from occurring before the open…

iTunes.sh

#!/bin/sh

ITUNES=/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes

if [ -f $ITUNES ]; then
  sudo mv $ITUNES ${ITUNES}X
  echo iTunes disabled.
fi

sudo mv ${ITUNES}X $ITUNES && 
  open -a /Applications/iTunes.app && 
    sleep 1 && 
      sudo mv $ITUNES ${ITUNES}X