itunes for Linux

[Carl Parrish]

It just occurred to me that I do *much* more system admin work on my
wifes computer than I do on my own. ::sigh::

Okay my wife is a personal trainer / group fitness instructor. So she
likes to down load music and play for her classes / customers. Limewire
worked fine for this but she kept  pulling up spyware / viruses instead
of what she was expecting to get. *Mostly* since we are only running
Linux this hasn't been much of a problem but a few times it has killed
her X server and various other problems so that I've had to clean up her
computer. $0.99 cents or even $1.99 no longer seems like too high a
price to pay for songs that she wants. Since she also wants to get a
I-pod I thought I-tunes would be a perfect fit. Doesn't seem to have a
Linux client though and getting it to work though CrossOver seems shaky
at the moment. (also I'm not sure that you can burn songs from I-tunes
to CD). So while creating the backup recovery discs on her new HP (I
figured I've already paid the Microsoft Tax I might as well have a copy
of the discs somewhere) . I noticed Rhapsody, It has a Linux client (I
thought) and can be burned to CD so I signed up for the service then
tried to pull it up on my Linux box. The Linux client is a mozilla plug
in that lets you listen to *streaming* songs via your browser. Not bad
and I'm glad they have something for Linux. But that doesn't help me
because I need portable music. So I'm looking for a pay service (so I
know the things listed as songs are in fact songs) that will allow me to
purchase *popular* music that can be burned to a CD (or at least loaded
onto a I-pod - I may be able to get away with that). Anyone have any ideas?