itunes for Linux

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 11:40 -0700, Carl Parrish wrote:
> 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?
----
just a thought about iTunes store purchases...they have DRM encoding
which limits how/what you can use music downloaded via store. I find it
much more favorable to still buy the CD's and then rip them (I used
WinXP & iTunes to do most of the ripping) and Linux & gtkpod from there
on. If you buy the CD, there is not DRM to contend with (excepting of
course certain Sony CD's  ;-)

Craig