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Free iTunes Over a Browser
Ade writes "One may now listen and search for Apple iTunes music via this front end or any webserver running the perl script called iTMS-4-ALL, which was written by Jason Rohrer, programmer of the secure filesharing system MUTE who hopes the script 'helps revive everyone's ITMS interfaces.' Music activists Downhill Battle, who organised the Grey Tuesday protests for disseminating censored music, run a copy of the script and say 'this is a cute tool, but it has the potential to become a powerful weapon to fight the major record label monopoly' in the ways they outline. Playing the music requires QuickTime for the ~600kb downloadable MP4 snippets to be heard." Update: 04/19 01:41 GMT by H : Thanks to Aaron at Punboy for sending us a link to a faster server.
Misleading title. This front end merely lets you listen to the samples, not actually download/listen to the actual purchased songs.
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you can use vlc instead of quicktime if you use an OSS system. Now the ITMS itself is going to be slashdotted, whoops...
why didn't apple make itunes work with any browser to begin with?
Because they were going for seamless integration with iTunes the app and the iPod. What good would it be to use a browser interface be if you had to use iTunes to play the music anyway?
It may seem like a nice idea to use a web browser interface, but it would completely shatter the sense of integration that they were going for, and succeeded at.
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Linux/BSD users already can listen to and download music shared over iTunes using TunesBrowser. The project is rather young, so a do-it-yourself compile is necessary, but it does present a very nice, clean GUI interface to iTunes shares.
(Incidentally, if you'd RTFA, your would notice that this project actually allows you to browse samples from the iTMS store, and has nothing to do with network song sharing.)
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....the first step in allowing us linux and BSD users to listen to iTunes shared music. While we can share music (and its well documented) we cannot, to the best of my knowledge, listen to others music without using iTunes. Perhaps if this is doable, somebody can make a hack to allow us to listen to shared music?
It's already been done. Personally, I don't know how well it works, but it sounds promising. IIRC, the Rhythmbox (iTunes clone for GNOME) guys are planning on including it when it's "ready".
(The hack in this article is unrelated to iTunes' sharing.)
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
I believe that you have forgotten about another free iTunes client, one which has an amazing front end, flawless iPod integration, it even lets you purchase music from the iTunes Music Store... it's name: iTunes. Not all free things are bad, nor would I hope anyone be stupid enough to say that... iTunes is great! This web based system that this story refers to... isn't too good IMO. But then, I own an iPod and have no problem using iTunes, in fact, because of it I no longer use Winamp.
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The Apple-provided iTMS Link Maker has similar functionality. It's great for searching for music outside of iTunes or for linking to music you like. If they're offering this kind of stuff themselves, I'd imagine they wouldn't have a huge problem with others doing it too.
GNUstep won't help you port Carbon applications. It only works for some Cocoa apps. Carbon is not objective c based. QuickTime (and iTunes IIRC) are still Carbon at heart. Sure there are Cocoa interfaces to QuickTime, but the core is Carbon. Porting Carbon to Linux probably isn't high on Apple's priority list.
First off, you can browse the iTunes Music Store without an iPod. Did you try the "Browse" button?
... the catalogs, if not identical, are very very close.
Secondly, all of Apple's audiobooks are through audible.com