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Codeweaver's Crossover 4.0 Adds iTunes Support
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."
...I really must say, Rhythmbox is junk. It does about a tenth of the things iTunes does. Besides, Linux users can now buy music. Awesome job, guys!
Take off every sig. For great justice.
Well if they did, you would think they would have tied up the loose ends with Apple Records before launching it.
but with their friendly upgrade policy i will be trying out 4.0 soon. they seem like a nice company. ahh, one day itunes will run flawlessly under linux, and that will be a GREAT day!
i saw the baby, and the baby looked at me
No kidding, especially since XMMS, Rhythmbox, Amarok and Juk all natively support the DRMed AAC files that you buy from iTMS. Oh, wait...
I couldn't care less about Yet Another Music Player. I could get interested in a working client for the world's largest online music store, though.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Oh wait, it still doesn't run the apps that regular end-users want. Oh well.
As an aside, I was reading a very funny Usenet discussion I had in *1996* (!!), where someone was saying that Linux was almost ready for the desktop, and I said (paraphrase), "I'll meet you back here in 10 years and I predict that we'll have an interesting Linux product, but it will lag behind the commercial market in critical ways."
Only eight years later, but yup. An interesting product that still can't do what normal users want to do.
(I'd post the real discussion -- it's pretty funny -- but it was under my real name, heh). You could cut and paste the discussion today and no one would know it was from 1996. It's hysterical.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
No, but I bet you could get hymn to compile on linux :-).
So then why wouldn't it encourage Apple to fix the problem? As in, people obviously want to run iTunes in Linux and use their iPods in Linux, so why not release a Linux version of iTunes? It would solve the semi-functional problem, and open up the iPod market to gadget-loving geeks just a little more.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
Well, from AllOfMP3 you can get 2.5GB of music for $25, that is about 700 MP3's at 192kbs. The same number of songs from iTMS would cost you oh, about $700! With almost _all_ of that money going to the RIAA and Apple, _not_ the artists.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
Actually, they use WebObjects for the store pages, not HTML and WebKit.
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