when paused itunes starts upon locking about monitores HOT 9 OPEN

I've tested the same with Windows 7 Home premium/ itunes 10 64bit and its 
working fine. Could you please remove the existing monitores.exe file and try 
with the new one ?

I have carried out the following steps:
* Deleted old MonitorES.exe + MuteVista.dll
* Insured that it is no longer running
* Downloaded the new one from 
http://monitores.googlecode.com/files/MonitorES_1.0.1b_Installer.exe
* started monitor es
* unset all settings
* started itunes (without music playing)
* locked computer (itunes does not start playing)
* set to auto pause media and to use pause button, saved
* locked computer, itunes starts playing

Incidentally when I go to about it says that it is version 1.0b

Wow, Thanks for the detailed steps. Let me verify on other boxes(I followed 
your steps and it worked fine).

I can confirm, I have the same issue.  I leave itunes open on my computer all 
the time for home sharing, but if I attempt to use the auto pause option iTunes 
begins playing as soon as I lock the screen.  Sort of defeats the point.

The same happens in Spotify.  monitores seems to unconditionally toggle pause 
upon lock and unlock in Spotify and apparently iTunes (I don't use it so I'll 
have to take the other users' word for it).

Winamp is unaffected and behaves as expected.  If I pause or stop playback 
prior to locking the PC, Winamp remains paused or stopped upon lock and unlock.

Okay I had a little downtime so I used it to see if I could spot what's going 
on.  I'm not sure if the version here 
http://monitores.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/1.0.1/functions.cpp is the latest 
1.0.1b or 1.0.1, but I'm sure it's similar enough that if it's not 1.0.1b for 
you to see what I'm talking about.

In PauseMediaPrograms() on lines 699~713 you definitely check that Winamp is 
playing before you attempt to send the pause command to it and set a flag, 
PAUSED_WINAMP, to indicate that monitores itself paused it.  Then in 
ResetMediaRunning() on lines 751~768 you check to make sure that Winamp is 
paused and that the aforementioned flag has been set before sending the play 
command to it and resetting the flag.  This works nicely.

As for the way Spotify and iTunes are controlled, since there is no such check 
for the player's state and no flag set and checked for in PauseMediaPrograms() 
and ResetMediaRunning(), monitores calls each player's respective Control*() 
function unconditionally which in turn check's the state only to send the 
players the opposite command of it's current state.  i.e. paused?  play!  
playing?  pause!

You do have ControlTunesOnLock() and ControlTunesReset() that look like they'd 
fill the gap for correct iTunes control with little or no modification, but I 
don't see them being called from anywhere.

You don't have either of those functions defined for Spotify, but I'm sure it 
wouldn't take you long to make and use them ;)

I haven't checked how any of the other media players are handled, so the same 
might need to be applied to one or more of those handlers if they exhibit the 
same behavior.

Thanks @starsonh, I fixed that one for iTunes in the latest version ( not yet 
released ). The problem with spotify is it's not yet available in India ( my 
country ). that's why I am not able to work on it.

Also I am busy with other work and hardly find any time for this 
development.I'll soon release the final version.

Once again Thanks for looking into the issue and reporting it back here.

I am having the same issue with WMP 12 and Windows 8.1:  If paused, music will 
start playing when I lock the screen.  Too bad as this was a handy piece of 
software.

I've taken a look at the code and i can see why it starts playing when paused 
and you lock.

I think you need a change along these line.

void ControlTunes (bool action)
{
    HRESULT hRes;
    CoInitialize ( 0 );
    IiTunes *iITunes = 0;
    hRes = ::CoCreateInstance ( CLSID_iTunesApp, NULL, CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER, IID_IiTunes, ( PVOID * ) & iITunes );
    if ( hRes == S_OK && iITunes )
    {
        ITPlayerState iIPlayerState;
        iITunes->get_PlayerState ( &iIPlayerState );
        if(iIPlayerState == ITPlayerStatePlaying && action == 0)
        {
            iITunes->Pause();
        } else if (iIPlayerState == ITPlayerStateStopped && action == 1)
        {
            iITunes->Play();
        }
        iITunes->Release();
    }
    CoUninitialize();
}

void PauseMediaPrograms()
{
if (IDC_PAUSE_MEDIA_FLAG)
    {
      ...
        //iTunes control using COM
        HWND hwndTunes = FindWindow ( "iTunes", NULL );
        if ( hwndTunes != NULL )
            ControlTunes(0);

    }
}

void ResetMediaRunning()
{
    if (IDC_PAUSE_MEDIA_FLAG)
    {
       ...
        //iTunes control using COM
        HWND hwndTunes = FindWindow ( "iTunes", NULL );
        if ( hwndTunes != NULL )
            ControlTunes(1);
       ...
    }
}

If you can advise what you used to compile this then I could compile myself and 
test to advise if this fixes the issue.

Marcus