QuickTime for iTunes in Wine!

How can I install quicktime for my iTunes?
With Wine iTunes runs but I need quicktime for use it!
Please help me!

Well what do you use itunes for?
Why do you need quicktime?
We can give you workarounds and alternatives, as quicktime and itunes dont work that well in wine anyhow.

Dunno
But check winetricks: winetricks - The Official Wine Wiki

To me its not worth effort to try installing it, its just wasting time installing it.

I use iTunes only for my iPod music, iTunes to run needs quicktime. Are there iTunes alternatives?

If you mean you want to sync you iPod - amarok 1.4 will do it
I think Banshee also

But just playing .m4a files should be no problem with any player

Don’t expect a vendor locked device like an iPod to work very well though/

You need to tell us exactly what you want to do. And what version of suse and if you use gnome or kde

I use openSuse 11.2 with KDE and I want to use iTunes to sync my iPod!

Did you try installing amarok 1.4 from Packman kde3?

Well how new is this ipod?
Most new ipods really dont work that well under linux, even if you somehow did get itunes working it still might not solve your issue.
Apple has made specifically sure no one but apple software/hardware users cant get a ipod working, with their lock ins and retstrictions it makes it very hard for linux developers to make sure the ipods work.
iphones are not any better, and in the end you might want to jailbreak your ipod… I know its not an ideal solution, but its one that works.
ipods might be all the rage, something expensive and shiny looking but I would sell it in favor of a more all OS friendly mp3 player, like a cowron or sandisk sansa.
Heck even creative is better then apple in this respect, some of their mp3 players work with linux… heck its amazing it works in windows with those SOB’s, I hate friggin creative.

If it is an older iPod then it should be recognized. I don’t know, but I haven’t heard good things about sync’ng with the iPod touches (or iPhones and probably iPad when it’s out).

I have an iPod Shuffle (square-variety) and it gets opened up in Banshee or Rythmbox (both Gnome-based apps) with no problems. KDE’s Amarok should work just as well. Gtkpod is another basic program to connect.

Just for shipoopie;) and giggles, have you plugged it in to see what the system wants to do? It might give you the option or just open Amarok automatically. In which case you can go from there.

My main tutorial on how to get a ipod working is to do the following 10 easy steps:
Step 1: Fetch a hammer, a pack of matches, a strong metal container (a large pasta pot will do fine), loads of kerosene or any other flammable liquid, and a fire extinguisher.
Step 2: Put ipod on the pavement outside your house
Step 3: Take the hammer and then smash the ipod into many pieces
Step 4: Put the pieces inside the pot
Step 5: pour the flammable liquid in the pot
Step 6: set that baby ablaze!
Step 7: making sure that ipod is throughly cooked up, put fire out with extinguisher.
Step 8: Leave remaining ash inside pot
Step 9: set ablaze again, burning the ashes, then put fire out and if the pot is in good condition rinse out and make a nice meal with it, I suggest a nice pastafazool… Molto Bene!
Step 10: never buy apple again

I also have a Shuffle (square i.e. 2nd gen). Those are good suggestions, but I recently verified it doesn’t work properly with 11.1 + KDE3 + Amarok 1.4.10, and/or 11.2 + KDE4 + Amarok 2.1.1. Same problem here, and on Kubuntu 9:10 + KDE4 + Amarok 2.2.0.

The problem appears to be with Amarok, since at least 1.4.10 or when they changed the way the device is supported. Prior to that, it detected the Shuffle and invited the user to select its precise model (generation). It had worked well for openSUSE 10.3. In Amarok 1.4.10 and above, it offers a limited selection for a Plugin (in Settings>Configure Amarok), with “Apple iPod Media Device” being the obvious choice. That plugin detected the Shuffle, and enabled the transfer and management of tracks on the media device. However, when you disconnect the Shuffle in AmaroK, and unplug it for normal use, the newly added tracks don’t play. :frowning:

Konqueror or Dolphin can display directories and files on the Shuffle. It’s only a flash memory stick formatted as vfat, so it’s easy to verify the tracks were added there. This tells me that probably Amarok hasn’t updated the very basic iTunes control files and database stored in the filesystem on the Shuffle. On more sophisticated iPods, that may not be necessary for the plugin itself to do that. I decided to try gtkpod

Using 11.1 + KDE3 + Amarok 1.4.10, I deleted the orphaned tracks and installed the latest gtkpod from Packman (0.99.14), using Yast. Gtkpod’s Help pages cleared up any uncertainties with the GUI. It got the job done, for a new track added and playable by the Shuffle’s database.

I then installed Packman’s gtkpod package (0.99.14) on 11.2 + KDE 4.3.5 + Amarok 2.1.1 and enjoyed the same success with the remaining new tracks I needed to add to my iPod Shuffle. Off-line, they played perfectly. :slight_smile:

Read somewhere that Rythmbox is now able to connect and work with iPod Touch and iPhones.

I am using Itunes 4 Download iTunes 4.9 - OldApps.com
download this and it will work fine

I like to install itunes on my SUSE 11.3 Desktop. I was able to download. But no luck installing. Got any ideas?

No
Don’t use Apple would be the best option.

In a windoze VM:

  1. Install VMWarePlayer or VirtualBox
  2. Install windoze in VMWarePLayer/VirtualBox
  3. Share some host (linux) folders in the guest (windoze)
  4. Install itunes in windoze VM

Trying itouch 10 with wine is too much of a pain/probably won’t work.

The newer amaroK2, 2.4.1 >>, should be able to handle iPod better again.

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