Hi,
As an iPod/apple TV user, I bought a lot of songs and movies on iTunes store. Is there any way that I could play it on my openSUSE 12.3 + KDE 4.10 machine?
(I’ve tried to install iTunes on WINE once, but failed…)
Thx,
Hi,
As an iPod/apple TV user, I bought a lot of songs and movies on iTunes store. Is there any way that I could play it on my openSUSE 12.3 + KDE 4.10 machine?
(I’ve tried to install iTunes on WINE once, but failed…)
Thx,
ITunes under Wine has a checkered history - see here
There are a number of applications which will import iTunes libraries and work really well.
I use banshee which is generally very good but there are others too. As long as you make sure you have a proper Multimedia installation with gstreamer and all the right codecs (see the Sticky posts at the beginning of the Multimedia forum) you shouldn’t have any problem.
For music purchased from iTunes (I have gotten iTune gift cards for xmas and birthdays before), I use the brute force method, burn a CD and RIP it to flac or MP3 or what ever you want to use. I keep one real copy of Windows running with iTunes on a dual boot machine for this purpose. I would do it as soon as I had a new CD and never waited till I had a lot of music to do at once. I like the CD method as my backup of the music since hard drives have been known to fail. Anyway, it has been my solution to kill two birds with one stone, backup of music and conversion for use with openSUSE. I have not used wine, but I have ran iTunes in Windows in VirtualBox, but I would always have some odd issue like the home page in iTunes being blank or some other crazy thing. Buying Tunebite is another choice you can use in Windows. You can convert your music in mass if you wanted to. I did it way back in 2008 as I recall and I know that the product is still around.
Thank You,
Well, I think one of the best thing of buying & downloading music online is that you don’t need to do all these backup things, as long as the music is attached to your account…
While what you say is true, this assumes you even remember what you purchased and from where. Having a real CD is the longest lived backup for me, but the more you are into such services, perhaps local backup is not needed, but I am hesitant to put all of my faith into such a service so far.
Thank You,
but in the case of itunes what this means is . . . as long as the music is attached to your account and you have access to the locked down proprietary software provided by the company that sold you the music.
There are much better and open options than itunes for purchasing music online if you want it available across multiple devices and operating systems. But I guess none of this helps you with your current dilemma.