I never used it much other than as a backup and sync repository for my IPhone.
Without thinking this morning, I plugged my IPhone into the USB slot and then it hit me.
I guess that I could run it under VirtualBox and it just occurred to me, but I am trying to rid myself of any need to use Windows.
Or the dual boot feature, or maybe my IPad.
Lol, I went through all the extra steps to set up dual boot and I have never used the Windows side. rotfl!
I never used iTunes, never had any iDevices. But if this is about storing stuff in the cloud, and nothing else, there’s loads of options you have, most of them free for first couple of GB, then charged. If that’s out of the question, owncloud is a nice solution, on a server on the web, or on a webserver of your own.
I’m pretty sure that it will run under Wine. Worth installing Q4wine too as that keeps any windows apps nice and tidy. It also allows the window size of the app to be set up easily and allows the windows directories to be browsed as if they were on windows which can be useful at times.
Once wine is installed just launch the installer also and files associated with a windows application. Those will be passed straight to the app. It tracks associations as well.
If any problems ask or search on winehq.
I run a windows optical design package as there is no decent OS package available.
Done this way no need to reboot or boot up a virtual machine.
My daughter uses Linux and has an ipod. She had no problem when using the KDE app Amarok. I think Rhythmbox, a Gnome app, also works and looks more like itunes.
It’s been a long time since I last used any apple products, but I used to use AmaroK to populate and synch with an iPod.
As well as AmaroK and Rhythmbox, as Penguinclaw suggests, you might also try Clementine and Banshee. They all should provide some mechanism to interact with iPhone, iPad and iPod etc I belive.
Penguinclaw wrote:
>
> My daughter uses Linux and has an ipod. She had no problem when using
> the KDE app Amarok. I think Rhythmbox, a Gnome app, also works and looks
> more like itunes.
>
I’ve got the wife using gtkpod. If a 70 year old music teacher can use it,
anyone can! The only issue I’ve run into has been in ripping some of her
obscure cd’s - the freedb database is pretty thin on those specialty discs
while itunes references the commercial database and does much better.
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Will Honea
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:38:19 +0000, Will Honea wrote:
> Penguinclaw wrote:
>
>
>> My daughter uses Linux and has an ipod. She had no problem when using
>> the KDE app Amarok. I think Rhythmbox, a Gnome app, also works and
>> looks more like itunes.
>>
>>
> I’ve got the wife using gtkpod. If a 70 year old music teacher can use
> it,
> anyone can! The only issue I’ve run into has been in ripping some of
> her obscure cd’s - the freedb database is pretty thin on those specialty
> discs while itunes references the commercial database and does much
> better.
gnupod is what I use here. But if the functionality looked for is “the
iTunes store”, the the OP needs to talk to Apple about that, because
that’s a closed platform.
Jim
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Not something that interests me much but I thought that the iTunes music store aspect was in the windows version of iTunes.
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:46:02 +0000, John 82 wrote:
> Not something that interests me much but I thought that the iTunes music
> store aspect was in the windows version of iTunes.
It is, but iTunes is produced by Apple. They don’t have an open API that
third parties can use to interface with the store - that’s what I’m
saying.
Jim
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I am thinking that some cloud version is what I am after.
What I used ITunes on my Windows PC for was a central repository that kept my music, software, and videos.
It was more than just to share music.
I try and keep my IPhone and IPad in sync and I think the cloud option would be a better solution.
Thanks all for the suggestions and gtkpod is quite a good app.
I like Amarok, but imho is kinda bloated and slow as all get out. If it did more of what I wanted I would fight it and try and get it to perform better.
John 82 wrote:
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> Not something that interests me much but I thought that the iTunes music
> store aspect was in the windows version of iTunes.
>
That’s one of the few reasons I keep a vbox vm for Windows - that and Garmin
map updates are about the only things I use it for anymore.
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As an after thought, Amazon offer all your purchases, whether cd, vinyl, mp3 available to listen through your browser. You can also download them as mp3s. Not certain but they may offer an upload service to their cloud service that might be suitable.
Ok Jim I here what you say but if it will run on Wine it will effectively become part of the Linux desktop. eg I suppose if the launch icon was in Q4wine it could be viewed as an activity - including an explorer look alike if needed or any other windows applications that a user may need.
I’m not a fan of this sort of thing but sometimes windows software is the only choice. In my case optical design software that goes by the name of OsloEdu. There are no OS equivalents. This is part of the reason for the existence of Wine. Of late there seems to be much interest in using it to play games. I would have thought that iTunes will have been worked on by the Wine people. From looking at this link it seems that the best thing to do is try it
If problems it may be best to ask on the winehq forum. The usual initial response to that on any application is are you running the latest version. Probably not. I had an interesting problem updating. Joint dependencies. One part needed the other and the other way round. YAST wouldn’t cope with that. Zypper will. On the other hand WineHQ now keeps a link to the OpenSuse repo for the latest version here
WineHQ - Wine Binary Downloads
Good job too as I had a lot of trouble finding it.
The “windows” file structure can also be browsed via linux so say music was bought there shouldn’t be to much of a problem playing it with any OS player. Not much info relating to OpenSuse on this aspect but there is some info here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/iTunesMusicStore
Wine evolves rapidly so it’s hard to obtain up to date info but if it doesn’t work iTunes and Wine can easily be uninstalled. Personally I would always install Q4wine as well but wine can be driven directly. It’s a case of spending the time to find out how. Install is easy though - it will load any windows installer package as soon as it’s launched - as will Q4wine. Exe files too.
I use VLC for music,video and streaming radio. A planer interface that some may prefer. There is info about on using this for AAC.
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:46:02 +0000, John 82 wrote:
> Ok Jim I here what you say but if it will run on Wine it will
> effectively become part of the Linux desktop. eg I suppose if the launch
> icon was in Q4wine it could be viewed as an activity - including an
> explorer look alike if needed or any other windows applications that a
> user may need.
Well, yes and no. I do use Crossover myself (which contributes to the
WINE project) for a few things, and the level of integration “depends”.
For example, I run the Windows version of Spotify (alongside the Linux
version) using Crossover and it works, but some of the menu key shortcuts
don’t work properly.
> I’m not a fan of this sort of thing but sometimes windows software is
> the only choice. In my case optical design software that goes by the
> name of OsloEdu. There are no OS equivalents. This is part of the reason
> for the existence of Wine.
There again, quite aware of it myself - I professionally use Framemaker,
and it doesn’t run with WINE. In my case, while there are DTP
applications that run on Linux, my projects specifically require
Framemaker (as most of these projects are content updates or involve
processes outside my control that depend on XML exports from Framemaker).
Jim Henderson
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