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iTunes For Linux, Thanks To CodeWeavers
pizen writes "The folks over at CNet have the scoop that a new version of CrossOver Office (3.1) now supports Apple's iTunes. The preview version of the software is being tested and is currently only available to current CodeWeavers customers. They expect a final version to be available later this year." Reader snowtigger contributes a link to this screenshot. White demonstrated iTunes on a Linux machine at OSCON as well; a rendering glitch marred that demo, but he was still able to demonstrate playing back a song which he'd purchased from iTMS using iTunes on Linux.
This is has honestly been the only reason that I still boot up in Windows.
Also seems I not the only one:
"iTunes has been our No. 1 most requested application," CodeWeavers CEO Jeremy White said in a statement.
And presumably a free open source version cannot be far behind? Now, if I can just take this opportunity to ask the iTunes people to please add some (a lot) more to their back catalogue then the world will become perfect.
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Apple haven't sued Codeweavers over QuickTime under GNU/Linux so why would they do it over this?
It's running whatever software Apple offer. No DRM is being tampered with.
I think they will worry far more about RealNetworks than this.
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I think iTunes on MacOS X is a Carbon application, ie based on an updated version of the old Macintosh APIs. If it's anything like Quicktime for Windows, the Windows version of iTunes probably makes use of what's effectively a Carbon layer for Windows.
Just because there might be BSD stuff underneath everything on MacOS X doesn't mean everything directly uses the BSD APIs...
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Not that I would buy any digital restrictions managed music from anywhere in the first place, but I digress...
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its crossover - so, its running the windows version.
asshat.
I have been in love with iTunes since I first used it in Windows late last year, I have all my music in it, and allow it to keep everything organized. While in Windows, everything is nice and neat and tidy, however, as soon as i switched to Linux and loaded up my tunes in XMMS, or Juk, or Kaffeine or any other multimedia player, all the titles and ID3 tags would look messed up.
While some of the open source projects out there have been doing a great job emulating iTunes, none have yet to duplicate the easy of use and great interface that Apple gives us. I wouldn't say this is the only reason why I use Windows, but I would say that while in Linux, I rarely listen to any of my music because I find it too difficult.
Thank you code weavers, and I will be looking forward to the release.
tourettes
You mean that he purchased from iTMS using iTunes on Windows on Linux?
Wow, cool, now the Linux community can easily, painlessly join the choice of a new generation. Fan-f*cking-tastic, where do I sign up? *drool*
(youngandstoopid) so its like QT/GTK then? (/youngandstoopid)
Sounds like Apple are embeding the UI layer and the Application layer, that's what you get from a single vendor solution....
Well.. maybe not.. but how hard can it be for Apple to do a carbon copy for Linux, like they've done for Windows.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
You don't understand what Crossover Office is, do you? Read the article before you make stupid comments.
What about gtkpod?
iTunes is not an X windows app. That's why porting it to Linux won't be much easier than porting to Windows.
Oh and the parent is moderated interesting! No it's not it's rubbish. Repeat after me Aqua is not X! CoreAudio is not ALSA (or OSS)!!!
Yes Mac OS X has got BSD kernel, but 95% of things above that level (exlcluding OpenGL) are proprietary Apple stuff and so a nearly full blown port is requeried from Mac OS X to Linux! Nowadays programs like iTunes use more then fopen(...); and printf(...).
Serious question, as I have no system capable of running iTunes smoothly. What's so good about iTunes? If you don't intend to buy an iPod or music from the iTMS, is there anything special about iTunes that other music players don't have?
> and OSX's fancy graphics are still X11 based,
No, Quartz is like DisplayPDF, totally different from the X11 model.
No, they aren't. X11 is completely separate from Aqua/Quartz. One of the many reasons why you need either Xfree86 or Apple's modified X11 to run X applications. Additionally, like the grandparent said, iTunes is based on Carbon, which is separate from the BSD subsystem. For the most part, OS X uses BSD for its kernel and services only: all Mac OS X native programs are written in Cocoa, Carbon, or Java.
"while in Linux, I rarely listen to any of my music because I find it too difficult."
Bull. What's more difficult about listening to your music in Linux than Windows? I have not seen messed up ID3 tags in my mps or ogg files in Linux, Windows , or on my Pocket PC. Perhaps the original software that created your music files was less than compliant with the standards (or you are using old versions of XMMS/Juk/Kaffine). Did you report your problems to the developers? What makes you think the Linux version of iTunes will be any better?
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What is a good program to use to batch change all ID3 tags to match the file name, or better yet, to match the file name minus the ".mp3"?
Suggestions?
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OSX still uses a BSD interface which is alot similar
/dev/whatever/ so I don't see any problem
iTunes doesn't, so you're wrong here. It uses Carbon, a completely different and very large API ported to Mach from MacOS. I doubt highly it touches the BSD server much.
and OSX's fancy graphics are still X11 based
Wrong. Quartz is essentially a display PDF renderer, written from scratch and having nothing to do with X11.
and music devices and disks are still
Wrong. 0 for 3. Thanks for playing "Slashdot pundit who doesn't know what he's talking about".
Ummm... yeah. Great screenshot.
Now there's iTunes running in Linux. Good.
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On the other ahnd, there's an Ogg Vorbis for QuickTime Plug-In, currently just for OS 9, OS X and Win32:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou
But one keeps wondering how much of an effort it would be to combine the two, thus getting Ogg Vorbis functionality within iTunes running under GNU/Linux on i386 and PPC??
I looked at the screenshot and saw the OS X like buttons... my first thought was "Wow! They ported Crossover to OS X so now I can run iTunes on my mac!!"
Then I realized what I was thinking, and felt dumb.
Contrary to popular belief, you don't have an inherent right to music, just like the RIAA has no right to sales. Listen to non RIAA bands, or go out and make your own music.....
I should have a right to the music I have paid for though. That's what anti-DRM people are usually complaining about.
Looks a lot like an OS X or Windows XP screenshot to me. Taking a snap of only the one window does not make it a screenshot. It makes it a window capture.
Don't tell anybody, but this must actually break the iTunes DRM good and hard. CrossOverOffice almost certainly uses a standard Linux sound driver to get the sound data to the sound chip. This is bound to mean /dev/dsp, which is "hackable" in the sense that anyone with root access can snarf the digital audio data between when it gets decrypted by iTunes and when it gets sent to the sound chip. You can then make unlimited unencumbered copies. Additionally, knowing that the file was uncompressed from lossy AAC compression, it should be possible to recompress it in such a way as exactly to recover the original compressed file, just sans DRM encumbrance.
The same would, of course, also go for any successful attempt to run Windows Media Player under Linux.
DRM is a pipe dream. There is a fundamental physical reason why it will never work, though a formal mathematical proof escapes me right now. It's time to stop trying to do the impossible, even if that means having to swallow the unpalatable.
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Why Apple Needs iTunes for Linux.. PHP-Nuke As of Late, I have been looking into buying an ipod, they are so cute and sexy, but I cant get over the fact that I cant download music legally for it. You might ask me, why cant you go onto Apple's iTunes and pay for your music, well because THEY DONT support Linux! I have been using Linux for the last 5 years and I feel that it is the perfect desktop for me. It has loads of functionality and it always seems like things are getting updated, so it feels like a new experience every time I turn on my computer. (most people don't like that, but it keeps me productive). I have everything I have ever wanted in Linux, except a legal way to download music. I have even gone as far as buying a ibook to play around with macosx and use iTunes, but I was soon disappointed that I couldn't transfer my iTunes collection I had just purchased to my Linux computer. Now there is a very cool open source project called playfair, that takes the DRM (Digital Rights Management) Software out of the AAC file that you download from apple and allows you to play it on your Linux computer. But this is again not legal, and it could be used for wrong doing. Apple doesn't understand if they would have supported the Linux community in the first place, they wouldn't have programs like this all over the Internet. The only thing they have done to support Linux at all is creating a ton of open source software that helps the open source community, but not Linux in general. I would even go as far as saying there are probably more Linux users out there than Mac users and it only hurts Apple not to create a Linux version of iTunes. Come on apple help stop Piracy and come out with iTunes for Linux!
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Wow, great screenshot! It really shows us... ummm... well, what iTunes looks like.
Umm your it was such a terrible program line is missing a few things - like what was so terrible about it.
I have used every music jukebox app available and prefer itunes over all of them because it is easy, efficient and well organized.
So don't pay for music that you don't get the rights you want to. Check out www.magnatune.com if you'd like freedom with the music you buy. They allow you to download full 128kbps mp3s of all the songs available as samples (at least they have for all the artists I've checked), and after you buy a record (recommended price is $8, but they allow you to choose from $5-$18) they allow you to download in a variety of formats: WAV, FLAC, high quality OGG or MP3, etc.
Are you raving about iTunes or Winamp? iTunes does everything you describe, and it looks better to boot. In fact, I'll bet you dollars to donuts that Winamp's media library is patterned after Apple's. Start by looking at the screenshots.
"I think they will worry far more about RealNetworks than this."
Apple have always made people use their products through superior design / better UI / usability / looks and feel. How sad that they now want to force people to use them using lawyers.
I use itunes / itms and my ipod because theyre great. I will only try the Real one because Apple are stooping as low as their rivals.
Yes, I know its offtopic. No need to tell me.
The AAC codec in iTunes is now excellent and really takes on all comers. The one biggest feature for me is the ability to transcode from WAV-->AIFF-->AAC-->MP3 with just the click of a button. It makes keeping a reference copy of your collection in uncompressed form very easy and desireable because you can easily automate the process to rip for portable use and smaller sizes. Smart Playlists make this even easier.
First Real makes their player compatible with the iPod. Now someone makes iTunes available on Linux.
Apple hardly needs to do a thing to improve iTunes. Their competitors are doing it all for them.
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I think this makes iTunes the first mainstream online music store to run under Linux. Apple should really try a native port, 'cuz if they did they would own the Linux market for music stores.
Step 1: Port iTunes to Linux
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
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Well, given that iTunes in in a lot of ways just a nice front end for Quicktime, then iTunes must be like this if Quicktime is like this, I guess.
Great... now only if I could get firewire to work easily and reliably on linux.
I'll admit to keeping a Win partition on my machine, so that from time to time I could boot into XP and play with apps like iTunes. I was pretty taken with iTunes at first, but the only thing it seems to offer over any collection of similar Linux apps is convenience. Why not use apps like rhythmbox (for gnome) or juk (for kde)? While neither app is as mature as iTunes (yet), they both do a great job. And both have better .ogg support than iTunes.
I would argue that ITMS, while convenient, isn't that great a value. Why not opt for one of the other services that lets you download files encoded at a higher bitrate? Or in multiple formats? Or from Linux? This is exactly the kind of application where Linux users should be looking to innovate, in the interest of offering more choices, and not just waiting for the CrossOver port. There are plenty of great projects out there doing just that, and they could all use the attention that CrossOver's iTunes work seems to be getting.
I personally have no interest in paying apple $1/song for a proprietary format; reencoding in ogg is not an option. Really, $1 per song is very, very expensive - considering a cd is about the same and you get a nice semi-permanent media, far higher quality audio, with artwork lyrics, etc.
.50/song.
Only if you like and will listen to every single song on that hypothetical CD. If you'd rather pick and choose every track to make sure there's no dead weight that you'll always skip over, then $1 is a perfectly good price point.
Come to think of it, $1 per song is a complete rip off. If they were ogg encoded, I might give it some consideration at
With how pervasive MP3 is these days, it's going to take a hell of a lot of catching up before anyone will give a damn that a relatively miniscule group of people won't listen to music that isn't ogg encoded.
If $1 a song is too expensive, it should come down, unless online operators start colluding. Still, it is cheap, in Europe we pay a lot more.
Remember also Apple are only making a small profit at the moment. At $.50 they would lose money. If you have no interest, don't buy. I don't. Just accept you aren't part of their target market. I'm puzzled why people need to keep saying they wouldn't buy something, just don't buy it.
Cocoa apps are, in theory, not hard to port over to GNU Step unless they use a lot of the new features. GNU Step apps can usually just be tweaked a bit and recompiled as Cocoa apps.
That's all well and good, but like the parent said, iTunes is written in Carbon, which is like the old OS 9 api's, so it doesn't use ANY of the bsd like api's for anything.
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So, will it be DMCA, or will we hold out for Fritz's INDUCE? Or will it be a novel approach based on patents for obvious things?
'course, it's easier to nab the encryption keys on a Linux box...
I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
It decided that I obviously didn't want to use any other program to do anything related to music. If I put a CD in the computer it started and I was unable to find a menu option to disable this. It terms of being a jukebox it offers nothing I can't get from Winamp which is less bloated and has more plugins. I'm not sure what you're using to quantifying "efficient" but it definitely took up too much of everything to be used as anything other than maybe a music store and I have no interest or need to buy my music using it. It did nothing better and many things worse than smaller more expandable programs like winamp. If you compare it to Musicmatch it wins hands down because Musicmatch is worse in every respect but if you're not going to buy music with it there is no reason I can see to use it.
Well, see, with iTMS the artists will see the money, unlike allofmp3 :P
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What does Juk have over iTunes as far as managing you music collection?
iTunes is free (like Juke)
iTunes is on v4.6 with the accompanying stability and polish
iTunes has sound normalization
iTunes has song ratings
iTunes plays CDs, internet radio, and streaming music from other computers
iTunes rips songs
Unless there's a version of Juk I don't know of... Juk doesn't rip songs or play CDs?
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I just switched from Linux to Windows and installed cygnus just because of iTunes!
Juk is a quite good clone of itunes for KDE (not the shopping stuff, just a library manager)
You can transfer files to your ipod with gtkpod
Better prefer to launch a proprietary software with a windows emulator.
Avoid the ID3 tags !
" Apple haven't sued Codeweavers over QuickTime under GNU/Linux so why would they do it over this?
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Because Apple is making a significant amount of money out of it?
Actually, I think he was playing "push the buttons of slashbots eager to correct any detail they perceive as a mistake" and he just got through to the level 2.
Can't seem to find the link to the beta version after I login (I am a current customer). Anybody who can tell me where to find it?
First of all, it claims that Apple basically does nothing to reap its one-third cut of the price of a song on iTunes. What about the front-end costs of bulding the iTMS backend, developing the client application (for multiple platforms) and the ongoing costs of the bandwidth? I guess that's "basically doing nothing"?
Secondly, if a recording artist is making 11 cents per song on iTunes, isn't that 11 cents that the artist would never otherwise receive? I mean, an artists' overhead for selling on iTMS ought to consist of: (a) rehearsal and studio time, (b) mixing services, (c) hiring session musicians and maybe a famous producer or something, and (d) marketing. The label gives them an advance for all that stuff, and takes it back (and then some) in their 53 cents per song cut of sales on iTMS.
So, once the artist has paid back the label for any advance money, every 11 cent per song sale on iTMS is pure profit, right? The artist has no ongoing expenses for selling on iTMS, right?
And Apple has lots of really expensive ongoing overhead, right? And Apple says they're barely breaking even on iTMS today, right?
So how is Apple screwing artists?
I've always considered $1 for a good song to be a great deal when thrift store record shopping. If the album contains 1 good song (good being a relative term) then I've done pretty well. Even better if I average that ratio over the course of a day's finds.
Now with iTMS, I am pretty much guaranteed that ratio. I know what song I'm getting and its usually one I've been wanting for a while. To me it is worth it. Also you don't have to buy a whole album or buy from RIAA members. It really is that easy. But if you don't want to do either, fine, but I get tired of those who pronounce judgment against those of us who do find it useful.
Where is their DRM being tampered with here? All this is doing is running a Windows app on a different platform
...and that's all there is to it.
As for OGG encoding, well the moment they actually start offering any non-crippled files such as MP3's, well it costs them essentially zero to also offer OGG and a dozen other formats. It doesn't much matter how few sales there are of a format so long as the sales of that format exceed the cost of offering it.
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Good point. I think iTunes is great, but how the £$%^ can I get it to store a playlist that:
- is emptied when I open iTunes (or even better, when I haven't been using it for 30 mins or more)
- I can append songs to really easily, preferably by double-clicking
- I can clear easily?
I find "Party Shuffle" a pain to use - adding stuff to it and clearing it is fiddly.
Insightful my ass. Could parent or parent's moderator please explain, how the hell it is supposed to affect Apple's bottom line if Apple's customer using iTMS with iTunes for Windows client is actually some other os, which just happens to provide the same interfaces iTunes for Windows needs? That customer is still shopping on iTMS, and DRM is still effective. That customer may still own an iPod, too.
Theoretically one could explain that it is easier to bypass DRM on Linux than on Windows, but as we now have things like a commercially licensed PowerDVD for Linux and Hymn for Windows, I think that argument won't really hold any water.
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From what I've heard, while QuickTime is Mac code running on a Carbon layer for Windows, iTunes is a native port.
...and that's all there is to it.
I love being able to use embedded quicktime in firefox in linux =) It rules.
It's not an emulator. It uses the names of windows dlls, and it uses the directory structure of windows, but nowhere does it run a windows kernel; it's all implemented in libraries installed on your machine.
This problem rules. It is very efficient, and changing id3 tags take literally a few mouse clicks. A very well put together program.
Why did you even post this comment? Well golly, if you don't own an iPod, this means nothing to you! What an astounding conclusion. And of course you are right that CodeWeavers should wait for you and you alone to jump on the bandwagon before they start work. My God, why didn't I think of that?
To any other developers out there - please check with Captain Zapp and make sure he has use for your code before you develop. Forget your own desires or other users - Captain Zapp is now the gatekeeper for all coding projects.
GtkPod is an excellent program for managing the iPod but the authors make no claims regarding iTunes, which of course they would never be granted access to in any case. Apple controls the iTunes commerce channel.
So don't pay for music that you don't get the rights you want to.
Sorry, but 'rights' is not something you can buy at the market. Politics is about "one person, one vote" not "one dollar, one vote".
<pedantic>Actually, Cocoa, Carbon and Swing are the frameworks you can use. Java, Objective-C, AppleScript, Python and Perl (and more every day) are languages you may choose from in order to target those frameworks.</pedantic>
Cocoa and Carbon are both considered 'native', though. For a new project, the only real choice is wether you want to go procedural and target Carbon or OO and target Cocoa. Legacy code bases will naturally choose Carbon to leverage existing code, but there are virtually no differences in capabilities (now - there were) between the two frameworks now.
In fact, most of the Cocoa objects use the same low level data structures and functions under the hood as the Carbon framework - so much so that Apple offers 'Toll Free Bridging' between the types. An NSString object can be swapped with a CFString reference without having to convert it at all. The idea here is to encourage 'hybrid' Cocoa/Carbon applications - but the the fact that this works proves that there isn't much difference under the hood between the frameworks.
The advantage of using the Cocoa framework is simply being able to use Objective C (very funky at first, but very cool language) and an extremely elegant framework that does most everything you might need with minimal work. If you're starting a new project, you should be using Cocoa. It's fast, powerful and is Apple's Wave Of The Future. I don't expect Carbon to go away any time soon (you try telling Adobe that they have to rewrite Photoshop from scratch), but I do expect lack of effort at some point. This doesn't mean that Carbon is somehow non-native.
iTunes is a legacy application (released initially for OS 9), therefore it was started on the Carbon framework. However, a LOT of the refinements Apple developed using iTunes (alternating row colors on lists, split views, controls in table cells, etc) has made it down into the frameworks and are now available to both Cocoa and Carbon.
PS - Interesting tidbit: The Finder was initially a (badly) modified Carbon application when OS X was first released. It was re-written in Cocoa for 10.2, and I believe it is the ONLY Apple application that has made that transition. It's either a testament to the simplicity of the Finder (right) or the power of Cocoa (likely) that they were able to change so easily. Not that I don't have my gripes...
Culture is more than commerce
Why Apple need a hole in the head. Mozilla like recently, ive wanted an ipod really bad, 'cause maybe they'll help me pickup chix. This punches a huge gaping hole in the lame excuse I had before. I would tell you that I cant download music from itunes because they dont support my s00per leet OS. I used to conveniently ignore all of the other legal sources of music online, because I dont really buy an music anyway. Kazaa roolez! But anyway I am maD leet, 'cause I use teh linux long time. Mozilla my themes look k-rad, and I am even k00ler 'cause I update my libraries to 0.99rc1.pre-alpha.0_3 whenever a new Gentoo build script is available. (It's all about USE flags!) I live in my parents basement, so I don't need a job. That's why I can spend all day rebuilding my OS. I tell my parents that, if they buy me an ipod all my music will be legal, so they wont have to be afraid of getting sued anymore. Mozilla I think they're gonna get me one. They bought me an ibook for college, but i dropped out. I couldn't recompile my kernel under OS X, so i don't like using it. People might think i'm gay. I got a bunch of AAC files from my warez buddies, and the ibook played them, but I couldnt figure out how to play them on Gentoo. it must be impossible! I heard about this program once that lets you play music that someone else bought, but there wasnt a emerge script for it, and I could find it online, so it must not be around anymore. Mozilla Apple doesn't understand if they would have supported the Linux community in the first place, i wouldn't need to steal more music, cause Id already have a bunch. The only thing they have done to support Linux at all is creating a ton of open source software that helps the open source community, including linux. Mozilla but they havent given my the things that I want. We will fuck them up. We are Legion, They sUx0rs. Peace out.
Actually, it's still in carbon. Very easy test: attempt to execute an operation that would normally hang Finder (emptying the trash, etc.). Notice the wait cursor you get (hint: it'll alternate between the pinwheel and the stopwatch). Unless the developer has added the stop watch resource into the program (which Apple hasn't), the stopwatch is a legacy wait indicator from OS 9 and Carbon.
An entire CD costs $10, a single song $1. If you only like certain songs on the CD you buy them separately, you save money from buying the entire album, that's the point. If you do like the entire CD, well most CDs on iTMS cost more than $10 if you buy the hard copy.
Wow - you're right. I could have sworn I heard Apple trumpeting about that change, but I seem to have mixed one of those silly rumors with real life. Damned pre-coffee posts.
That only strengthens my original point, though - with the only difference being that Apple hasn't moved any of their applications from one framework to the other. Apple themselves treat Carbon and Cocoa as equals and the proof is in the Applications they develop.
Culture is more than commerce
What good is this when we already have Linspire's lsongs?
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Not to mention that iTunes is based on QuickTime. It's the reason why other iApps can access iTMS M4P files and the reason why Real can play iTMS songs on their player. iTunes on Windows was an easier port since QuickTime for Windows exists. It'll be hard to do so on linux, but that is not to say that Apple can't implement limited QuickTime functionalities. OTOH, the rumors (only rumors, mind you) are that QT 7.0 is written from gound up to free it from legacy code, so QT and iTunes for linux may happen in the future.
Funny, the "right" to watch a baseball game or movie in person is something I buy at the box office. No ticket, no admission; that's not a violation of my Constitutional rights, is it? The right to use equipment at my gym is another thing I buy. The right to eat a cheeseburger from McDonalds is another thing I have to buy on the market.
When a "right" is the "right to make use private property" it *is* something that can be bought in the market. And it so happens that in this reality, musical works and performances are (intellectual) property, for which the right of re-distribution is restricted to those licensed by the copyright owner, except under the *limited* free use exceptions.
Only if you like and will listen to every single song on that hypothetical CD. If you'd rather pick and choose every track to make sure there's no dead weight that you'll always skip over, then $1 is a perfectly good price point.
But you're not buying the song for $1, you're getting certain rights to use it on certain devices. You have waived the rights you have under fair use to do whatever you want with music that you buy on CD. I can rip my CD and reencode it to whatever format I want, play it on any device I want, as many devices as I want. A song I "buy" on iTMS can only be used with a computer running iTunes (Mac, Windows, or now Linux i386 w/Crossover plugin) or an iPod. Nothing else, without violating the terms of use you agree to when "purchasing" the song on iTMS. I've got CDs that still play that are 15 years old. I can legally make backup copies, and listen to ripped and encoded tracks from it on devices that hadn't been dreamed of in 1989. What are the chances you'll still be listening to your $1 song in 2019?
Spend $1 each on songs if you want, just don't fool yourself by thinking that you're "buying" them. You're renting.
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Uhm, I wonder what's wrong with your dual 2ghz G5, because iTunes absolutely flies on my dual 2ghz G5. You didn't downgrade the RAM to 128mb, did you?
The Cocoa Finder has been a perennial rumor in the Mac community since OS X was launched, as though a Cocoa rewrite were some sort of magic spell that would solve all the problems in the
There's an even simpler test for Carbon/Cocoa-ness: It's possible to use most Cocoa controls while a window remains in the background by holding down Command while clicking. If you can manipulate a window without bringing it to the foreground, it's Cocoa. If it always pops on top, it's Carbon.
Damn HTML...
The Cocoa Finder has been a perennial rumor in the Mac community since OS X was launched, as though a Cocoa rewrite were some sort of magic spell that would solve all the problems in the <10.3 Finder with no further effort. In 10.3 it's just a much-better-written Carbon app.
There's an even simpler test for Carbon/Cocoa-ness: It's possible to use most Cocoa controls while a window remains in the background by holding down Command while clicking. If you can manipulate a window without bringing it to the foreground, it's Cocoa. If it always pops on top, it's Carbon.
"Could parent or parent's moderator please explain, how the hell it is supposed to affect Apple's bottom line..."
It doesn't have to affect their bottom line, it only has to make them nervous. And since there's money at stake, there is reason to think they might overreact whether it could pratically hurt them or not.
I'm with you... It works great on my 1 Ghz G4 powerbook... it also works just fine on my 450 Mhz G4 at work even when I'm doing stuff on Photoshop all day.
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Hopefully it will be added soon so I can rid myself of Windows once and for all.
as in:
DeDRMS.exe MyMusicFile.aac
...you mean? Get it here. It's C#, so also for Linux.
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i don't think itunes can convert Real Media/Monkey's Audio/NSF to mp3/wav
i don't think itunes can even play any of those codecs...poor itunes people won't be able to play the nintendo tunes in small nsf files
winamp is capable of a lot of things if you can find the right plugins...however the staff of winamp are idoits...
"Parent poster's point was that the demo did not include the ability to purchase a song using iTunes on Linux. The song still had to be purchased using iTunes on Windows, then it could later be played back using iTunes on Linux."
Unless I completely misunderstood J. White when he explained this (which I'm confident I didn't because it was something he emphasized and was happy about/ proud of), the song he showed *had* been purchased from iTMS through iTunes running with WINE (CodeWeaver's version, that is) on a Linux machine. He did not need a machine running Microsoft Windows to purchase the song.
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The name iTunes refers to what it does - plays tunes (music). It has never been meant for video, although you can now have music videos through iTMS, and they could easily incorporate video because Quicktime is running the show underneath the GUI.
/. I don't hear much about it. The average person knows mp3, if I even try to explain AAC to them they get confused, so I tell them to think of it as mp4 and of course the higher number helps them see it as better (I do know what it is, so you don't have to tell me.)
Why the crap do you want to make a thousand folders to put each individual song/movie in so that you can search them? In OSX I could do the same and search in the finder for "Rated-G Animated Movies" following your method of approach and still come up with the same results possibly faster. Using tags or metadata is much better to organize then making folders.
I can't say anything about your PC, but I have a Dual 2.0Ghz G5 and have iTunes running most of the time and it doesn't make a dent in slowing down what I'm doing. I work on Photoshop mostly and usually am not working on a file less then 100 MB. Buy some more RAM.
I can't comment on the iTMS quality as I haven't purchased anything. I do have 65 GBs of music on my drive though, and a 128 kbps AAC is roughly the same as a 160 kbps mp3 to my ears. I rip at 192 kbps mp3 though for compatibilitys sake.
And are people really asking for Ogg playback? Out of
Just downloaded the latest alpha, and installed iTunes, but the pulldown menus are kinda b0rked (common with not-quite-there Crossover/Wine apps). It's a step forward, though. I find XMMS perfectly useable, and with the LongPlayer companion app, i have a great random jukebox, on par with iTunes w/ Party Shuffle.
Just look under the advanced menu in iTunes. "Convert ID3 Tags".
You're a nutcase, Nutcase! ;-)
Not to be picky but how popular was AAC before Apple picked it? Still not sure it is that popular now but if a company can't "protect" their product, and they want to, then they will pick something that offers that "protection".
I do not know, does OGG offer any kind of DRM? I am guessing not. Which leaves us with home rips and file sharing, back where we started, without a source to buy the product, rather than, erm, borrow it.
Tracker.
Not true. When you purchase a song from iTMS you have to ability to burn that song to a CD (the same playlist on up to seven CDs), thus converting it into an .aiff file which you can do with what you need to at that point. You can backup all you like, convert all you like, play that burned CD in your car or wherever you have a CD player. I'd say the chances are largely in my favor that I'll have my iTMS purchases available to listen to on almost any device that has speakers till the day I die.
I 'own' my iTunes songs to the same extent that you 'own' the songs you buy on CD. You own the CD, but you don't own the music. That little 'C' with the circle around it pretty much says so.
iTunes is not "free like juk". Not even in the least.
Secondly, juk does one thing, manage and play music files. You use something else to rip if you like. Why do we need one program to do everything? Who cares?
Oops, your're right, iTunes is not free like Juk, but Juk is free like iTunes. The transitivity is one way here.
Why do you need one program to do everything? Uh... well, I suppose it's because CDs are music too.
Why is it Juk doesn't play *those* music files?
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The problem is the signal is already decompressed by the time it gets to the sound card driver. "Breaking iTunes' DRM" means getting access to the unencrypted compressed sound data. There is no known way to recover the AAC compressed source from the decompressed version--to preserve the same sound quality as the original iTMS file you have to recompress lossless (which creates a much larger file)--if you just recompress as AAC or MP3 you will lose quality from the roundtrip, although presumably this is fine for some. Basically, iTMS DRM is supposed to guarantee that you cannot create a unencumbered small file of the same quality from your downloaded songs, plus put a convenience barrier to discourage casual file swapping.
if you tick "compilation" in the info/id3 pane in itunes, it creates a artist directory called "compilations" and puts the album, then the tracks in there (the file names do not have the artist tho... iirc)
"compilations" also comes up as an artist in the browse section
*however* (and this annoys me muchly) this is not replicated on the ipod - the ipod ignores "compilations" altogether and u get a billion artists in the artist browse list
to get around this i give compilations "compilation" as the artist and name the song "artist - song name" and soundtracks have "soundtrack" as the artist
its a bit crap but u only have to do this for the ipod, not if all u use is itunes
FYI: QuickTime Player in 10.4 is re-written in Cocoa.
Or is this the kind of roundabout plot that Zim would use?
Now we can run iTunes on every PLATFORM!!!!
Gir... why is there bacon in my ipod??
You can keep it, I won't touch iTunes with a ten-foot pole ever again.
Maybe it fits nicely and works well in OS X, but the Windows version of iTunes is ugly, looks and behaves differently than any other app in the desktop, and same goes for running it in Linux. That's matter of taste, of course, the real problem is that it's SLOW, I mean, changing a song takes about a second on 2GHz machine, what the hell are they smoking?
If you like the dynamic playlists of iTunes and have any geek blood left in you, try wxMusik, what could possibly beat doing SQL queries into your music library?
Not trying to be repetitive, but I also find it strange that on a 2Ghz machine you are having problems. My 400Mhz, 128 RAM machine has absolutely no problems with iTunes. No "1 second wait" at all. No need to respond, just giving more testimony.
I have heard there is a program in windows and mac that can upload and download stuff in folder form. So I can see the iPod contents where playlist are in individual folders etc.
Does any iTune expert know if this program is a myth or a real iTune alternative?
this is driving me crazy now!