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Codeweaver's Crossover 4.0 Adds iTunes Support

Posted by timothy on from the productive-of-sloth dept.

nbahi15 writes "Codeweavers has released v4 of its Wine implementation with the addition of support for iTunes. To quote their web site, 'iTunes works, and can do everything we thought was important; play music, access the store, and sync with an iPod. It can't burn CDs right now, and it has some fairly serious warts (sound is tricky, particularly with 2.6 kernels, and getting the iPod going is hard), but we think it's usable.' Finally I can use the single most important 'productivity' application on Linux."

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  1. SyncPod by mrfibbi · · Score: 5, Informative

    get Syncpod (http://armin.emx.at/ipod/). Neat little perl script that syncs a directory of music and m3u playlists into the ipod. Works great for anyone who likes keeping music organized by directory and id3 tag and not by any particular program.

  2. Re:Nice and all. But.... by jeremy_white · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm glad someone else said this...when I said it I figured folks would think I was just whining (although we are the Whine guys :-/).

  3. Re:Where is Apple in all of this? by ravenspear · · Score: 5, Informative

    I mean come on, 99+% of all open source Linux apps can run natively on OS X

    This is the difference. iTunes is not an open source app. It heavily uses proprietary code (Carbon) derived from the classic MacOS (9 and earlier). They would have to port that API to linux before they could port the app. That would be a large effort considering the small market share of Linux. Porting to Windows was a bit easier as there was a huge opportunity to expand iTMS and iTunes revenues, and they had already ported Carbon to Windows.