[gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Michael Schmarck]

Hello.

Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell
me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86
system? Is it possible to change the store location to something
other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)?

Thanks,

Michael

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Florian Philipp]

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On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 12:45 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell
> me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86
> system? Is it possible to change the store location to something
> other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 

AFAIK that's not possible. Most likely DRM will not work and even if it
runs, you won't be able to burn CDs with it. You might have more success
with Windows in a virtual machine but then you'd still need to emulate a
CD-burner. I'm not sure if there exists an out-of-the-box solution for
that.

By the way: For questions like this, there exists appdb.winehq.org

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Stroller]

On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:45, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> ...
> Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell
> me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86
> system?

Sorry, but I'm unable to help you with this.

> Is it possible to change the store location to something
> other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)?

UK residents can buy from the iTunes store, as I would imagine can  
residents of many other European countries. But I prefer to buy CDs,  
myself.

Stroller.
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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Michael Schmarck]

Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> On 18 Mar 2008, at 11:45, Michael Schmarck wrote:

>> Is it possible to change the store location to something
>> other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)?
> 
> UK residents can buy from the iTunes store, as I would imagine can
> residents of many other European countries.

I went ahead and downloaded iTunes 7.6 and ran it with Wine 0.9.57.
When I start iTunes (in Wine), it connects me to the US store. Although
there's a link to change to other stores (like Switzerland), this
action does not work - ie. even after changing to Switzerland, I'm
still at the US store.

Can a European (or rather a Swiss person, as I'm living in
Switzerland) buy from the US store?

Michael

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Joshua D Doll]

Michael Schmarck wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell
> me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86
> system? Is it possible to change the store location to something
> other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>   
iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP 
with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, 
because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[andrea]

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On mar, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote:
 
> iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP 
> with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, 
> because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(.

Same here with VirtualBox. ITunes works fine for the ipod too.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:43 AM, andrea <momesso.andrea@gmail.com> wrote:
> On mar, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote:
>
>  > iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP
>  > with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod,
>  > because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(.
>
>  Same here with VirtualBox. ITunes works fine for the ipod too.
>

Older versions of iTuens run OK under Codeweavers. I haven't kept up
my subscription of Crossover Office as it's just far easier to use
iTunes for purchases under Windows. Mostly I don't buy much from them
as I don't like the sound of their encoding but it works great for
keeping my kid happy.

I tend to use iTunes to rip my CDs in Apple's lossless encoder as that
format is supported in Windows and OSX as well as Aqualung on Linux.
If I don't use iTunes to rip then I do it in Linux using K3b.

Hope this helps,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Florian Philipp]

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On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote:
> Michael Schmarck wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell
> > me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86
> > system? Is it possible to change the store location to something
> > other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >   
> iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP 
> with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, 
> because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(.
> 
> --Joshua Doll

But you have no way to burn an audio-cd from it and thus get rid of drm,
right?

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 20:00 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote:

> > iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP 
> > with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, 
> > because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(.
> > 
> > --Joshua Doll
> 
> But you have no way to burn an audio-cd from it and thus get rid of drm,
> right?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/22/dvd_jon_unlocks_itunes_locked/
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Jesús Guerrero]

According to the winedb, as of wine 0.9.57, iTunes works ok under wine, 
store services included. I haven't tested it myself, since I am not a
fan of iTunes.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=10543
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Joshua D Doll]

Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote:
>   
>> Michael Schmarck wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell
>>> me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86
>>> system? Is it possible to change the store location to something
>>> other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP 
>> with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, 
>> because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(.
>>
>> --Joshua Doll
>>     
>
> But you have no way to burn an audio-cd from it and thus get rid of drm,
> right?
>   

I've burned a copy of CDs from within the VM, but not using iTunes. I 
personally don't have very many DRM'd music, like I said I just use it 
to transfer m4a (apple lossless which is not DRM'd) files to my iPod.


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

[Florian Philipp]

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On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 17:39 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote:
> Florian Philipp wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote:
> >   
> >> Michael Schmarck wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hello.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell
> >>> me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86
> >>> system? Is it possible to change the store location to something
> >>> other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Michael
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP 
> >> with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, 
> >> because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(.
> >>
> >> --Joshua Doll
> >>     
> >
> > But you have no way to burn an audio-cd from it and thus get rid of drm,
> > right?
> >   
> 
> I've burned a copy of CDs from within the VM, but not using iTunes. I 
> personally don't have very many DRM'd music, like I said I just use it 
> to transfer m4a (apple lossless which is not DRM'd) files to my iPod.
> 
> 
> --Joshua Doll

Oh, that interests me: Which VM enables you to actually burn CDs? I
tried Qemu once and were told at that time that there is no VM with
CD-burning functionality.

Did you actually burn it from within the VM, e.g. having that much
control over your hardware or did you create an image you later burned
with native linux tools?

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