media player for songs bought on itunes

1dude1 · 09-28-2006, 12:20 AM

ok so short and simple is there any music player out there that can manage all of the files on my ipod but also can play all the music i bought off of the itunes music store.

rickh · 09-28-2006, 12:24 AM

Probably not because of the DRM. Have not yet figured out why people will pay real money for music that Big Brother has tampered with. OTOH, I hear that there are programs which will strip the DRM away.

jens · 09-28-2006, 01:18 AM

If you really want iTunes on Linux, you could always pay for CrossOver Office:
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibi...ame?app_id=134

I don't like the iTunes Store either, so I mostly use gtkpod as an interface for my iPod(I don't like iPod either, but got it as a gift).
gtkpod:
http://www.gtkpod.org/about.html

As for iTunes like players with iPod support(none of them support everything),
KDE(QT): Amarok
http://amarok.kde.org/
GNOME(GTK2): Rhythmbox
http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/
An other popular one for GNOME is Banshee(C#, Mono framework):
http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page

reddazz · 09-28-2006, 03:33 AM

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1dude1 · 09-28-2006, 11:20 PM

thank you all i have already tried amarok and couldn't get it to work so then i tried rythembox and it didn't work. i do not want to pay for crossover so i will just try gtkpod but it looks like it will work so yeah thank you all so much